Our Current Boat Builds
Urban BoatWorks holds weekly classes for a variety of boat-builder levels and ages. We welcome visitors to experience these builds in person. Contact Jim to schedule a visit.

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Merrimac Canoe: After School Builds
These basic, beginner-level boat builds currently involve six middle school students from UrbanPromise’s CamdenForward School and six students from the Catholic Partnership Schools. The canoe pictured, the classic of our fleet, is a beautiful and stable craft that catches the eye of all who see it.
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Math-Focused (STEM) Boat Builds
As part of their mathematics curriculum, UrbanPromise Academy’s 9th grade class is working on two projects: a 30' dragon boat for the UrbanPromise dragon boat team, and reparing our existing fleet of canoes and kayaks from their heavy use in the summer paddling program. Additionally this year, over 80-6th grade sutdents from the Camden Forward School, Sacred Heart School, and Camden's Promise Charter School will be completing a series of small scale projects and boat models, testing them and tying their activities to their math curriculums.
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Advanced Build
Once a week, experienced UrbanPromise Academy students work together to create tandem cedar and mahogany strip kayaks and canoes--the superstars of the UrbanTrekkers fleet.
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Voyager Canoe
With an eye for teamwork and collaboration, the Camden Academy Charter High School's senior physics class is taking on the challenge of building a cedar-strip voyager canoe. This canoe, seating eight paddlers, is modled after the canoes used to travel thousands of kilometers on the lakes in Canada in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, transporting furs and goods.
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Dragon Boat
A part of our 9th grade class' build, adding the Dragon Boat to our fleet opens doors for new activities for our students. Having been welcomed warmly into the Dragon Boating community, our team has competed in the Independence Dragon Boat Regatta more than once, finishing at the top of our division in 2016. Not only does building the boat engage our students academically, the practice of rowing this 14-person boat fosters unitiy, teamwork and grit.
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