Schools
Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding
The Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding is a small school dedicated to developing craftsmen skilled in the art of building wooden boats in the traditional plank on frame methods.
California Maritime Academy
Located in Vallejo, Calif., California Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime) is a unique and specialized campus of The California State University that offers students bachelor’s degrees in international business and logistics, facilities engineering technology, global studies and maritime affairs, marine engineering technology, marine transportation, and mechanical engineering. Cal Maritime is one of only seven degree-granting maritime academies in th ...
Carolina Coastal Classrooms
Carolina Coastal Classrooms owns and operates the skipjack Ada Mae as a floating classroom.
Cohasset Maritime Institute
Cohasset Maritime Institute is a non-profit organization which offers recreational and competitive ocean rowing instruction for both students and adults and maritime education, including small boat building. Located on Cohasset Harbor, it offers an ideal setting for a safe, scenic and enjoyable rowing experience. We welcome people of all ability to join.
Discovery Modelers Education Center
The Discovery Modelers Education Center carries on the traditions and skills of ship modeling. The organization does this through hands-on education, including classes, seminars and workshops for people of all ages and abilities, through model exhibits, and other activities.
Duxbury Bay Maritime School
The mission of the Duxbury Bay Maritime School is to connect people of all ages, abilities and means to Duxbury Bay through educational and recreational programs that stimulate individual growth and an enduring love and appreciation of the sea.
Echo Hill Outdoor School
Echo Hill's outdoor classes and residential programs are grounded in a desire to have students live and learn closely with nature. The school's historic craft includes the skipjack Elsworth, the buyboat Annie D., and the deadrise workboat Spirit.
Institute of Maritime History
The Institute of Maritime History (IMH) is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to research, preservation, and education in nautical archaeology and maritime history.
International Yacht Restoration School
The International Yacht Restoration School is a non-profit institution dedicated to education and maritime preservation. The school teaches the skills, history, art and science of building, restoring and maintaining boats and their systems.
Los Angeles Maritime Institute
Since its founding in 1992, the mission of The Los Angeles Maritime Institute's TopSail Youth Program has been to use sail training to provide youth with real-life challenges that develop knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to live healthy, productive lives.
Maine Maritime Academy
Maine Maritime Academy (MMA), a small, co-educational, public college on the coast of Maine, offers you a world of opportunities.
Northeast Maritime Institute
Northeast Maritime offers a wide range of U.S. Coast Guard and Commonwealth of Dominica Maritime Administration approved and STCW compliant courses and a variety of courses for professional development and licensing upgrades.
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
The Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building is a non-profit institution founded in 1981 by famed Seattle master boatbuilder Bob Prothero to teach and preserve skills and crafts associated with fine wooden boat building and other traditional maritime arts with emphasis on the development of the individual as a craftsperson. The school offers formally accredited year-long courses in traditional large craft, traditional small craft and contemporary ...
Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education
Founded in 1967, the Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education offers the most U.S. Coast Guard-approved courses of any maritime school in the nation.
Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory
The Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory is a maritime education organization whose mission is to engage the city’s youth through hands-on, experiential programming inspired by the heritage of the sea. Operating out of a newly renovated light industrial site in the heart of Frankford, our boatbuilding and sailing programs – which include school day, after school, and summer sessions - help middle and high-school age students develop self-esteem, impr ...
Pitcairn Islands Study Center
The Pitcairn Island Study Center preserves archives and records related to the 18th century mutiny on HMS Bounty.
Rocking the Boat
Rocking the Boat uses boats to help young people challenged by severe economic, educational, and social disadvantage develop into empowered and responsible adults. Participating during the school-day, after-school, and summer in hands-on wooden boatbuilding and on-water education programs, young people in the South Bronx develop the self-confidence to set ambitious goals and the skills needed to achieve them.
Sea Skills Educational Academy
The Sea Skills Educational Academy and the Argus Foundation are non-profit 501(c)3 organizations that are dedicated to restoring Southern California’s famous tall ship and floating classroom, the Argus. We were founded by former Sea Scouts and Argus alumni. Once the Argus is restored, the foundation will maintain ownership, provide skippers and license the ship’s use to youth groups, continuing it’s long legacy of inspiring and teaching the next ...
Seattle Maritime Academy
The Seattle Maritime Academy is a unit of Seattle Central Community College.