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

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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Traditional Skills

Maritime Traditions

Teaching Traditions