On Friday, June 8, the fifth grade students of the Dennis C. Haley Elementary School
in Roslindale will launch the 8 boats they built this past winter. It is sure to be a fun event.
Check out this video from last year!
This year our program expanded to include swimming lessons.
They will be able to take their boats out alone this year.
The students have also been practicing rowing on Saturdays this Spring. We developed a new partnership with the Boston Public Health Commission for this. A group of their staff along with our volunteers have been serving as coaches. Here are a few photos of their practice sessions. They are all preparing for the races we will have on launch day and their free use of the boats at Jamaica Pond all Summer! Please help us expand our work to reach more kids! Contact John Rowse, Executive Director, Boston Family Boat Building, 617-595-8557 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 fifth 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 Boston Public Schools at
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,
Robbins-de Beaumont Foundation, A. C. Ratshesky 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 | 
