Building a Mishoon at CBC
This fall, Community Boating Center will host a special community project led by Wampanoag artist and educator Hartman Deetz: the building of a traditional mishoon, a dugout canoe. Using the traditional burn-and-scrape method, Hartman will transform a large log into a...
A Season of Sailing, Racing, and Growth: The Youth Offshore Program Takes on a Summer of Challenges
For the Community Boating Center’s Youth Offshore Program, this summer has been a season of challenges, adventure, and growth on the water. From weekly training sails around...
Employment Opportunities at CBC
We are currently looking for a rentals manger to run CBC’s rental operation and sailing instructors to help with our spring programming.
New Mural at CBC!
New Mural at CBC! with Mass Cultural CouncilWe are so excited about the latest improvement to our facility—a mural on our garage doors! We worked with Superflat NB to hire Timothy Ellis Cole of Partner Projects to paint bring some color to our headquarters on...
Palmer’s Island
At CBC, we strive to teach our participants how to be good ocean stewards and we know that an important part of that is that we lead by example. As part of our continued efforts on this front, we have committed, along with our partners at Operation Clean Sweep, to get many years’ worth of debris off of Palmer’s Island in New Bedford Harbor before the end of this year.
Winter Programs at OSS
We are fortunate to work with the students from Our Sisters’ School throughout the year. During our winter session, our instructors go there Monday-Thursday and work with one grade each day. For the last few years, we have been building boats, both models and full size Bevins, but we didn’t feel that program was safe given current social distancing guidelines.