Boston Family Boat Building

Haul Out Day at Jamaica Pond

Friday November 11, 2011
 
This is always a sad day, to know that it will be some long dark and cold months before we are back here again with new boats and kids. To keep us energized, we have filled the winter with exciting new teaching and learning experiences. In January we start a new project to get all our kids certified as swimmers so they can use their boats on their own next summer. In April we start a new collaborative effort with the Boston Public Health Commission, Community Initiatives Bureau to develop a rowboat skills training and racing program at Jamaica Pond. It will be so much fun to see the kids able to row off in their own boats on launch day without an adult at the oars. The racing should be a wild event. We will keep you posted on the date as it gets closer.

Some Photos from the Haul Out
ENJOY!
carrying swimzilla
The Rider on its way off the dock
van at pond

BFBB van at Jamaica Pond

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
rider going on trailer
Rolling her to load above Eliot & Olmsted
carrying one 4
The Rider on its way to the trailer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rider 3
The Rider keeping company with two very special boats, Eliot & Olmsted
empty dock
A cold and empty dock awaits our return in the spring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 


 
These photos were taken by a person who frequents the pond and enjoys taking photos there. If you would like to see all the photos, click this link to our Facebook page: Where do boats go in the winter?
 
Contact

 

John Rowse, Executive Director, Boston Family Boat Building, 617-595-8557
  
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We have several of the student built skiffs for sale. See below. 
  
Donate your boat through our partnership with Block Island Maritime Funding.
  
Boston Family Boat Building brings critical academic subjects and skills -- math, science, social studies, spatial thinking, reading and writing -- to life with experiential learning opportunities for school children. It is a unique program serving Boston Public Schools elementary school children that draws on the outstanding natural features of Boston and its rich history. Now in its 6th year, the program works with 4th and 5th graders to learn navigation skills in the Harbor, construct a seaworthy 10-foot wooden rowing vessel and learn about earlier Bostonians, particularly African Americans, who worked in the maritime trades. Check out all our programs to bring exciting experiential learning opportunities to students of the
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Boston Family Boat Building is supported by

volunteers, individual donors and funding from:
The Jane B. Cook 1983 Charitable Trust, CHT Foundation,
Lawrence and Lillian Solomon Fund, Amelia Peabody Foundation,
Cabot Family Charitable Trust, George A Ramlose Foundation,

David Greenewalt Charitable Trust, Robbins-de Beaumont Foundation,
Wellington Management Foundation, Schrafft Charitable Trust and
Block Island Maritime Funding
The 2010 trip to the Small Reach Regatta was supported by the 
Downeast Chapter of The Small Craft Association
 

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BOATS FOR SALE
to support our work with kids
in the Boston Public Schools
 
Some of the boats built by students in past years are pictured above. They are for sale for $1,500 each. We have 15. They are 10ft, carvel planked in Maine cedar, framed in white oak from Orange, MA and have a fir plywood bottom. All materials are sourced from sustainably managed forests by certified loggers and milled in FSC certified facilities.

Contact: 

 John Rowse
Boston Family Boat Building

133 Paul Gore Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130