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ABOUT OUR PROGRAM
Building Bridges Across Community
The Annapolis Family BoatBuilding provides an opportunity to bring
together groups that normally would not associate. The building process
brings together people with enormous variations in skill level and
economic and social backgrounds. For adults, it provides rewards of
working with young people and for youth an opportunity to complete a
project from start to finish and an introduction to sailing. The event
involves families and kids working together building a wooden boat and
an opportunity for an introduction to sailing that will provide the job
skills, life skills, and self-esteem many of these kids never had
before. The program is not a handout, but a hand up towards ownership
of kids learning the meaning ownership, working together with others,
and completing a project to use.
The theme behind the event is that ordinary people --- families can,
with the proper instruction, build their own boat in a matter of days.
No prior woodworking or boat building expertise is required.
The event involves families and kids working together building a wooden
boat and an opportunity for an introduction to sailing that will provide
the job skills, life skills, and self-esteem many of these kids never
had before. Every family pays towards the cost of the boat with
scholarship support those who can. Never before has a need been as great
as now in the Annapolis community for a program such as this to reach
out to kids and families.
Register on-line via PayPal:
Board Members:
Mr. Scott Allan, Annapolis Yacht Club; Ms. Judy Templeton, W&P Nautical; Mr. Don Backe, CRAB; Dr. William Woodward, Seafarers Yacht Club; Mr. Michael Kaufman, Kaufman Design; Mr. Bill Donahue, Annapolis Classic Watercraft; Mr. Jay Baldwin, Annapolis Conservancy Board; Dr. Joseph Cater, III, Chair
An Optimist Pram Ready to Sail!
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