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- EIN 27-1509754
- (718) 222-4401
- 20 Jay St Ste 824 # B Brooklyn NY 11201-8306 USA
- www.brooklynboatworks.org
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Causes: Education, Student Services
Mission: Brooklyn boatworks instills academic and life skills in young people through the unique craft of boat building and on-water activities. Boat building programs are held in schools and community organizations throughout new york city, over the length of a school year. During the summer brooklyn boatworks provides a sailing education program, in student-constructed sailboats, along the brooklyn waterfront.
Programs: Brooklyn boatworks operated seven boat building programs, working with a total of seventy-two new york city school students spanning grades 6-10. Over the course of the school year each class of students worked together to build a 7'6" optimist pram sailboat using wood and simple hand tools. Students learned basic construction and tool skills, applied measurement and estimation, local waterway geography, nautical chart reading, the physics of sailing. Brooklyn boatworks emphasizes cooperation, perseverance, craftsmanship, and the benefits of learning by doing. At the end of the school year, students sailed their completed boats in a celebratory event on the east river. During the summer, brooklyn boatworks ran a sailing education program that served 120 young people.