The Museum's Boat Shop

The Museum's Boat Yard creates anew the tradition of a working waterfront. From the restoration of the commercial skipjacks, to the preservation and maintenance of the Museum's own floating fleet of Bay boats, to the presence and preservation of visiting traditional wooden vessels, the Museum's shipwrights and apprentices are a tangible connection to the Chesapeake's rich story of boat building.

Boat Yard staff interact with our visitors, explaining their work and the boats for which the Bay is known. You will also find shipwrights and apprentices demonstrating maritime skills like ship's caulking at our festivals and special events. And you can even try your hand at building a wooden skiff under the guidance of a Museum shipwright through public programs like Apprentice for a Day.

Beyond restoration and public programming, the Museum's Boat Yard is working to pass fading maritime skills on to a new generation of wooden boat builders. Our Shipwright Apprentice Program provides one year apprenticeships to graduates of boat building schools, so that they can get on-the-job training and experience under the tutelage of master shipwrights.

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