In August we posted about Rocking the Boat, an after-school program in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, a borough of New York City, which has been teaching neighborhood kids to build wooden boats for the last 15 years. Urban Boatbuilders offers a similar program which teaches boat building to youth in the St.Paul/Minneapolis area. Urban Boatbuilders is now a finalist in the Building Community Award. If they win, the program will receive a $62,000 grant. All it takes is votes, which cost nothing but a moment of your time. If you have a moment click here to vote for a good cause.
Old Salt Blog
a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea , hosted by nautical novelist Rick Spilman
With Lake Erie out here, too bad there isn’t something like that here to teach and train the kids.
But it takes start up money and someone to teach it, assistants, etc.