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Saturday, June 22, 2024

#PeachyAhoy #SummerintheCity #CentralPark #SailCentralPark2024 @RTBbronx Led by #JasmineBenitez Highly Recommended by #WhomYouKnow #PeachyDeegan @ManhattanPeachy

 Kerbs Memorial Boathouse in Central Park

People of all ages are going to love the remote control sailboats, and fantastic instructor Daniel Martinez also comes highly recommended!  You control the sail and the rudder and it is even more fun than you imagine reading The Catcher in the Rye.  We loved it and we can't wait to sail again.  Peachy Ahoy indeed!


2024 Schedule

June
Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays: 11am-6pm
Saturdays: 1-7pm

July-August
Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays: 11am-7pm
Saturdays: 1-7pm

September-October
Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays: 11am-6pm
Saturdays: 1-6pm







mission

Rocking the Boat participants develop pride, purpose, and possibility by learning the unique and lifelong skills behind building and rowing wooden boats, sailing, and restoring the Bronx River. We create community, teach through transformative experiences, and make nature available to everyone, inspiring young people to determine their own future against a backdrop of systemic inequity.

Rocking the Boat is committed to helping its participants:
Stay in high school until they graduate or receive an equivalency diploma
Enroll in college or trade school and be prepared academically and emotionally to succeed there
Develop technical skills such as sailing, boat handling, navigating, chart reading, carpentry, sample collection and testing, scientific observation, and recording data, all of which reinforce STEM concepts and put them into a practical context
Develop soft skills such as leadership, communication, teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking

history

Shortly after being launched in 1996 as a volunteer project in an East Harlem junior high school, Rocking the Boat worked under the aegis of New Settlement Apartments, which provided both workshop space and students for the cornerstone Boatbuilding Program. Incorporated as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 2001, Rocking the Boat continued to cultivate relationships with a wide variety of community-based, educational, environmental, cultural and historical organizations, and expand the size and scope of its services. Namely, the On-Water Education Program was added in 2002, the On-Water Classroom in 2005, the Job Skills Program in 2006, Community Rowing in 2007, and the Sailing Program in 2015.

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