We have five new 9-month and 2-year apprentices in the building this fall, as well as two new 12-weekers…
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I’m slow to connect the dots. When my wife and I announced to our grown daughter we were moving to join her in Maine, our daughter suggested I take the wooden boat building class at The Apprenticeshop…
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Like any organization that’s been in existence for a long time, The Apprenticeshop is ripe with its own lore. You hear stories from the “old days”…
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A recent graduate of our 9-month apprenticeship program, Ellery Kempe-Chalmers, reached out in response to our last newsletter with some photos of her time at the ‘Shop…
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We recently reached out to Dagmar Bay (alumna ‘96-’98) to ask her a few questions about her experience at the ‘Shop and what she’s doing now…
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We have eight new 9-month and 2-year apprentices in the building this fall, as well as two new 12-weekers…
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We reached out to Tom Weis recently to ask him a few questions about his experience at the ‘Shop and what he’s doing now…
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We have 6 new apprentices in the building this fall. They started at the ‘Shop on September 2nd…
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Finally! It may have taken 24 years, but now I have it. ‘It’ is the job I moved to Maine for…
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In the past few months, we’ve been featured in two magazines, MaineBiz’s Work for ME 2020 issue and Cape Air’s in-flight magazine…
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In partnership with several other organizations, including One Community Many Voices, we’re participating in an initiative to provide garden beds, soil, and seedlings to Rockland residents…
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Join us for a video tour of the shop while we are closed down to the public.
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While Apprentices and staff haven’t been able to work on boats in the last month, they have come up with all kinds of creative ways to train their hands and eyes at home…
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In early March, Jonathan Goodman came to the ‘Shop to do his volunteer week. The following piece was written by Jonathan about his volunteer experience…
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This month, amidst all of the coronavirus uncertainty and upheaval, I had an opportunity to sit down with recent graduate of the 12-week program, Emma Hathaway…
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Former 12-week apprentice Chris Battaglia has been interviewing apprentices and staff over the last few months to create a series of videos that tell the story of The Apprenticeshop…
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It was sailing distilled – the only instruments were a few handheld compasses, a dated, numbers-only black and white display handheld GPS, and our trusty bin of charts and chart tools…
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We have a new two-year apprentice. He’s been here now for 3 weeks, lofting, building molds, and sailing around Penobscot Bay on expedition…
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