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Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Add yourself to our email list here:
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Click here to follow our progress on the Rosie Parks Restoration Project!
Click here to Donate or Buy a Boat. Apprentice For A Day Public Learn traditional boatbuilding under the direction of a CBMM shipwright. You can be part of the whole 17-week process or just sign up for those aspects of building a boat that you want to learn. Must be 16 or older unless accompanied by an adult. CBMM members $35, Current Schedule: North Shore Sailing Skiff, Start of Journeyman Special Feb. 25 & 26 - Fit and install ribs Email questions to Richard Scofield or call the Museum at 410-745-2916 and ask to speak to someone in the Boatyard. Read more about the AFAD program in "Museum Boatshop Building More than Just Boats," a feature article in the summer edition of The Chesapeake Log, the Museum's quarterly publication. Journeyman Special
About the Shipwright Apprentice Program Beyond restoration and public programming, the Museum's Boat Yard is working to pass fading maritime skills on to a new generation of wooden boat builders. Our Apprentice Program provides one year apprenticeships to graduates of boat building schools, so they can get on-the-job training and experience under the tutelage of master shipwrights. In addition to preserving historic vessels and passing on traditional maritime skills, our Boatyard Staff develop programs to engage our visitors. The Chesapeake Bay shoreline was once home to scores of small boatyards where skilled shipwrights built and maintained hundreds of wooden vessels. These craftsmen not only supported the commercial growth of the Chesapeake, but they also passed along skills that had been refined over hundreds of years. Because most of these yards have vanished, and along with them, the skills and techniques of the builders, there is a deficit of proficient boat builders today.
The Museum's Shipwright Apprentice Program is on-the-job training in the form of a professional apprenticeship which gives apprentices the opportunity to work on a wide variety of Chesapeake Bay indigenous watercraft. The program provides the skills and experience of a working boatyard and bridges the gap for those coming out of wooden boat building schools and programs. The majority of apprentices completing the Museum's Shipwright Apprentice Program have taken jobs in the boat building or maritime industries, working in commercial shipbuilding yards or small boat yards around the Bay. Others have become shipwrights on large vessel construction projects and several are working in the maritime museum industry. Click here to read "Shipwright Apprentices: Where are they now?" a feature article in the Spring, 2011 issue of Requirements, Compensation & Application
Mail or fax your completed application to Boatyard Manager Richard Scofield. Richard Scofield Boatyard Staff
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The Museum's Boat Yard creates anew the tradition of a working waterfront. The Museum's shipwrights and apprentices are a tangible connection to the Chesapeake's rich story of boat building through:
Richard Scofield, Boatyard Manager & Assistant Curator for Watercraft
Marc Barto, Special Projects Manager
Don MacLeod, Floating Fleet Assistant