ST MICHAELS, MD – On November 6, 2020 just two days before the start of National Apprenticeship Week celebrations across the country, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum had its own reason to celebrate, with its first shipwright apprentice officially graduating from its now certified program. Zachary Haroth, a native of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., joined CBMM […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum had added two new Shipwright Apprentices to its team — Moses Dane of Albany, Calif., and Stephen North of New Hill, N.C. Dane comes to CBMM after spending the past decade in Olympia, Wash., working at South Sound Shipwrights on boat refit projects. Before that, he […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Sam Hilgartner of Baltimore, Md., has joined the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum as a shipwright apprentice. Hilgartner comes to CBMM from the Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding in Sausalito, Calif., where he was both an apprentice and an instructor. His work experience includes four years with the National Park Service at […]
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