Kids on Channel 5, Chronicle, "A Day in the Life" ......
     "Young students in the Boston Family Boat Builders (BFBB) program take a moment out from their creative work to pose for a photo. BFBB brings real world experiences and academic skills to excite young people about learning, offering year round courses in the interesting world of boats." Read more...

Boston Scenes Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week......
     "Young students in the Boston Family Boat Builders (BFBB) program take a moment out from their creative work to pose for a photo. BFBB brings real world experiences and academic skills to excite young people about learning, offering year round courses in the interesting world of boats." Read more...

Young students in the Boston Family Boat Builders...
     "Young students in the Boston Family Boat Builders (BFBB) program take a moment out from their creative work to pose for a photo. BFBB brings real world experiences and academic skills to excite young people about learning, offering year round courses in the interesting world of boats." Read more...

Our Volunteer Sailing Opportunities...
     "Our sailing, boat building and maritime history curriculum offers various opportunities to use your skills or interest as a volunteer." Read more...

What the locals say...
     "John Rowse, runs Boston Family Boat Building. He is pictured with children in a tent near the boathouse on the Esplanade teaching them to build a rowing skiff, and think spatially." Read more...

What's Exciting & New?
     "Students also had the chance to sail on a replica of a boat that was used on the Boston Harbor during the 1700-1800's. This program, run by the Boston Family Boat Building Project, taught students navigation and sailing skills used by early explorers." Read more...

Charles River Stories
     "I'm going to use 'River Stories' as examples, and at the end of each week to have the kids write their own," said Rowse, founder of Boston Family Boat Building. "There are a lot of people that do some great writing who never get a chance to publish it." Read more...

   Mtepe Boat Project
      Fourth- and fifth-grade students collaborated with kindergartners to complete boat-building project. Read more...

   What Will Become of Them?
      At our school a small group of students are building a boat with a volunteer boat builder. Read more...

   Family fun, and a boat to take home in four days
      The folks at Gannon and Benjamin have rolled out the plywood carpet for an imaginative, creative community boatbuilding effort. This time it was the brainchild of John Rowse, a fifth-grade teacher in the Boston public school system who has melded two central interests, experiential learning and "messing around in boats," in creating a program called Boston Family Boatbuilding. Read more...

   Boston families build boats, ties with waterfront
      As soon as friends lowered Carol Shear-Best's Skiff into the murky water of Fort Point Channel, her son, Aiynde, 8, scooted to the freshly painted bow. Her daughter, Zenzele, 13, took her place at the stern. Uncertainly, Shearer-Best sat down, clutched the oars, exhaled loudly, and set off on the maiden voyage of the boat she and her children had built with their own hands.. Read more...