- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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13 people are interested
Building/Repairing/Restoring Wooden Boats
ORGANIZATION: Buffalo Maritime Center
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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13 people are interested
Help the Buffalo Maritime Center maintain and repair our fleet of wooden boats. No prior experience is necessary. Multiple projects are available in our shop at 90 Arthur Street in the Black Rock section of Buffalo.
The Buffalo Maritime Center maintains a fleet of wooden period and replica boats which it operates as a community boat livery. During the summer, the boats operate in Hoyt lake in Delaware Park and in the Buffalo Inner Harbor where they are available for use during various public events.
During the winter the boats are brought to our shop where they are repaired. Volunteers are welcome to join in. In addition to annual maintenance, opportunites exist to volunteer on other projects including a replica War of 1812 tall ship now under construction.
More opportunities with Buffalo Maritime Center
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Buffalo Maritime Center
Location:
90 ARTHUR ST, BUFFALO, NY 14207, US
Mission Statement
It is the Buffalo Maritime Center’s mission to study and celebrate the rich maritime heritage of the Niagara Frontier, to preserve the use of traditional hands-on skills, methods and values inherent in the maritime tradition, and to encourage and promote public access to the area’s historic waterfront and waterways.
Description
The Buffalo Maritime Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational institution. The Maritime Center functions as an intergenerational community center where volunteers of all ages are trained to mentor young people in practical life skills during the regular work week, after school and on weekends.
Using boats and boatbuilding as the lure the Center is a safe place for kids and adults where the traditional values of self-discipline, self-sufficiency and a craftsman-like attitude are intrinsic to the work of building a wooden boat.
BMC staff and volunteers are organized to offer hands on traditional skills classes and workshops that focus on wooden boats and boatbuilding for academic credit, for technical arts education in grades 5 through adult education levels, and to the general public for quality of life improvement in the community. A core belief at BMC is that there is dignity and joy to be found in performing good meaningful work with our hands.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
90 Arthur StBuffalo, NY 14207
DATE POSTED
October 27, 2014
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A