Working to preserve the vessels, facilities and skills of our maritime heritage

Traditional Skills

 
 

Maritime Traditions

Jack of all trades and master of none.

In the age of sail the men, and some women, who went to sea were skilled in a dozen or more trades. When not scrambling up the rigging to set or take in sail they might work for the carpenter shaping a spar, mend sails with the sailmaker, shape metal for sail thimbles or longsplice a line to pass through a wooden block.

Boatbuilding Schools

NW School of Wooden Boatbuilding
Silva Bay Shipyard School
Seattle Central Community College
The Center for Wooden Boats
Bates Technical College
Cape Falcon Kayak
Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre
Quadrant Marine Institute

 

Schooner Lavengro sails the Salish Sea
 
 

Teaching Traditions

The Northwest Schooner Society holds three properties and three remarkable venues for education, research and historic preservation, the last Biloxi Schooner Lavengro (originally Helen, 1926), Burrows Island Light Station (1906), and the Grandy Tour Boat M/V Lightkeeper (1962).

All three are undergoing rehabilitation to preserve their historic character while providing good facilities for visitors.


Volunteers working below the waterline


Schooner Kids learning about boats


Lighthouse traditions join land and sea


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Seattle, WA 98175
206.577.7233

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