Rocking the Boat has joined in the creation of The Harbor School, a New Century public high school based around New York’s maritime resources, culture, and history, now in its maiden semester, based out of Brooklyn’s Bushwick High School. This Fall, Rocking the Boat is opening a second boatbuilding program based out of the South Street Seaport Museum Ship Wavertree, exclusively for students from the Harbor School. Ernerst Pollman will be running this shop, with the help of Rocking the Boat veteran Edmanuel Roman. This collaboration with The Harbor School signals a huge step for Rocking the Boat: for the first time, boatbuilding programming will be run from a separate site, for a new population, in direct connection with a New York City Department of Education school.

Things are hopping back in the Bronx as well. Ted Okie was hired as the Shop Forman/Boatbuilding Assistant, to help run the boatbuilding shop, lending his skills developed while working with the Gannon and Benjamin boatshop in Martha’s Vineyard. Addy Guance and Kimberlin Vazquez, a former Bronx River Crew member, have been hired to help run the outdoor education programming, and a new Social Work postion called the Student Advocate is close to being filled. This person will act as an individual guidance counselor and referral provider for each student and Apprentice, increasing Rocking the Boat’s impact on students’ lives.

Things are happening here! Come and join us!