The Museum Small Craft Association is a group of professionals and amateurs involved in the study and preservation of traditional small craft.
The Museum Small Craft Association is a group of professionals and amateurs involved in the study and preservation of traditional small craft.
News and Events
Museum Small Craft Association Annual Meeting
Monday, October 8 – Thursday, October 11, 2012 at Mystic Seaport, Mystic Connecticut
This year’s annual meeting will be at Mystic Seaport, which has the largest collection of historic boats in the United States and possibly the world. There will be time to explore the museum including the hundreds of historic boats stored in Rossie Mill. Monday evening will feature a trip down the river aboard the Sabino, a coal fired steamboat built in 1908 for use along the Maine coast. We’ll also tour the Charles W. Morgan, the 1841 whaleship, which is undergoing a major restoration in preparation for sailing again in 2013. On a smaller scale there will be opportunities for networking on the water aboard some of the Seaport’s livery boats. Thursday we’ll take a field trip to next door Rhode Island with stops expected to include the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport and the Herreshoff Museum in Bristol. Earlier in the week we expect to visit at least one of the boat restoration shops closer to Mystic. There will also be presentations and discussions, and lots of opportunities for informal discussions. The program is being planned. Ideas and suggestions are most appreciated, whether it’s a topic you’d like to learn about, a presentation you’d like to make or a discussion you’d like to lead. Contact David Cockey.
Teaching with Small Boats Conference
April 27 - 29, 2012
The next Teaching With Small Boats Conference will be held at the Center For Wooden Boats' Cama Beach facility on Camano Island in Washington State, April 27, 28, 29 2012. At the previous TWSB Conference in March 2010, 87 attendees representing 63 programs, and serving 27,000 young people a year, got together to share ideas and best practices. It resulted in more partnerships between organizations and the start of nationally coordinated programming. This year's conference will focus on sharing successful projects and programs, as well as exploring ways that the Teaching with Small Boats Community can work together to further the development of boats as teaching tools.
To register, fill out the form available at: http://tinyurl.com/TWSB-Registration
Building to Teach Training
Immediately after the conference on April 30, May 1st and 2nd (and also at Cama Beach) Joe Youcha will be running a Building To Teach hands on math training to train instructors how to teach math while building a simple boat. Travel and training stipends are available to groups that qualify. (It might be a good way to fund your attendance at the Conference and get hands on math training...) Contact Joe Youcha at: youcha@alexandriaseaport.org