Family Workshops
What: Ropework superpower for the whole family - emphasizing motor memory over memorization. Learn knots, bends, hitches, splices and more for lashing down the deck, the canoe, rigging the yacht, lifting something, hanging the laundry. Goofy and serious for all ages.
Where: Swell’s Boat Shop in Germantown
When: A three weekend workshop - May 24th, May 31st & June 7th from 10 – 11:30 AM
Who: Families ages 7 and up.
Why: The joy of learning together—whether as a kid, parent, or grandparent. For kids to show off how quickly they learn and for parents to model lifelong learning. Oh, and the skills? They’re pretty awesome!
Cost: $135/Pair - $55 each additional family member
What: Ropework superpower for the whole family - emphasizing motor memory over memorization. Learn knots, bends, hitches, splices and more for lashing down the deck, the canoe, rigging the yacht, lifting something, hanging the laundry. Goofy and serious for all ages.
Where: Swell’s Boat Shop in Germantown
When: A three weekend workshop - May 24th, May 31st & June 7th from 10 – 11:30 AM
Who: Families ages 7 and up.
Why: The joy of learning together—whether as a kid, parent, or grandparent. For kids to show off how quickly they learn and for parents to model lifelong learning. Oh, and the skills? They’re pretty awesome!
Cost: $135/Pair - $55 each additional family member
What: Ropework superpower for the whole family - emphasizing motor memory over memorization. Learn knots, bends, hitches, splices and more for lashing down the deck, the canoe, rigging the yacht, lifting something, hanging the laundry. Goofy and serious for all ages.
Where: Swell’s Boat Shop in Germantown
When: A three weekend workshop - May 24th, May 31st & June 7th from 10 – 11:30 AM
Who: Families ages 7 and up.
Why: The joy of learning together—whether as a kid, parent, or grandparent. For kids to show off how quickly they learn and for parents to model lifelong learning. Oh, and the skills? They’re pretty awesome!
Cost: $135/Pair - $55 each additional family member
Project Description
If your family sails or if you need to lash down the canoe on top of the wagon, come join us in a three-morning workshop practicing marlinspike seamanship skills. What exactly does that mean? The term covers a lot of ground, but we’ll be focusing on rope work primarily.
We teach knot work using motor memory—a skill learned from wise sea captains but also from the workshops offered by the late Brion Toss (The Rigger’s Apprentice) in his studio in Port Townsend, Washington. We’re choosing knots that go together to make things work, and we’re teaching them in a way a 7-year-old and a 70-year-old will remember and use.