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Wooden Boat Foundation

The mission of the Wooden Boat Foundation is to celebrate, support, promote, and preserve maritime heritage, skills, and culture through education and participation in the joy of wooden boats. Home of the first and still largest Wooden Boat Festival in North America, held the weekend after Labor Day every year, the Wooden Boat Foundation is [...]

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Northwest Maritime Center

The Northwest Maritime Center (NWMC) is a multi-use waterfront campus that provides powerful maritime experiences for people of all generations. The 27,000 sq. ft. facility is made up of a deep-water pier, a public commons, and two buildings that include classrooms, a retail Chandlery and Cafe, conference and meeting rooms, the Boatshop, the H.W. McCurdy [...]

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Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society

Founded in 1948, the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society is the region’s maritime history organization.  We provide research opportunities and services with our collection of photographs, documents, journals, ship plans and books in our Maritime Research Center (closed for moving spring 2012 reopening in summer 2012). We also offer monthly educational programs in Seattle and [...]

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Salish Sea Expeditions

Salish Sea Expeditions’ mission is developing curiosity and confidence through student-led scientific research and adventure on the waters of the Salish Sea. Using Inquiry Based Learning as a central strategy, Salish Sea Expeditions provides an opportunity for students to become hands-on scientists, studying the marine environment in the same way a professional scientist might.  They [...]

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Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum

The Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum is the nation’s only public, not-for-profit museum dedicated solely to powerboat racing. Formed in 1983, its mission is to preserve and exhibit important artifacts from the sport of hydroplane racing. The museum features a collection of vintage hydroplanes spanning seven decades, including boats that have won 17 Gold Cups, the [...]

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Sound Experience

Nonprofit Sound Experience owns and operates the historic schooner Adventuress (1913), Puget Sound’s environmental tall ship.  They use the ship as a platform to educate, inspire and empower all to care for Puget Sound.  Sound Experience offers day-long and overnight programs for teens, families and adults aboard Adventuress.

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Sea Scouts

The Sea Scout program is an international component of the Boy Scouts of America Venturing program for young men and women aged 14 to 21. Sea Scouting is organized to promote better citizenship and to improve members’ boating skills and knowledge through instruction and practice in water safety, boating skills, outdoor, social and service experiences, [...]

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Sailing Heritage Society

The Sailing Heritage Society is a not-for-profit organization that offers sail training and education to promote healthy recreation for a number of at-risk youth groups in the community, as well as respite for critically ill cancer patients and solace for victims of domestic violence. Charity and discount sailing trips are scheduled aboard the schooner Mallory [...]

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Puget Sound Ship Modelers

The Puget Sound Ship Modelers is a volunteer-based, not-for-profit organization devoted to modeling historic ships. The group meets monthly at Coast Guard Museum Northwest.

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Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located along the waterfront of the newly established six-acre Port Hadlock Heritage Campus. School facilities currently include more than 15,000 square feet of covered space located in several buildings. The historic, two-story, 7,500 square foot Captain Westrem Building accommodates a lumber-milling room, two boat shops, administration offices, and [...]

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