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...