Junior Skippers, Junior Shipwrights

BoatShop Summer Camp Elementary School

9AM-4PM DAILY

Elementary School Camp students will:

  • explore Gig Harbor aboard electric boats.

  • go sailing aboard Thunderbird No. 2, Pirouette

  • learn about salmon habitat exploring Donkey Creek

  • be introduced to Gig Harbor’s historic working waterfront aboard Veteran, in the Skansie NetShed and at the Eddon Boatyard shops

  • learn how to tie knots and how to dock and tie up a small boat

  • be introduced to Shipwright tools and learn how to use them

  • make a wooden toy model of Veteran in the historic Eddon Boatyard shop

  • learn how to use a compass and how to read a chart