Our mission is to support positive youth development through the building and use of boats.

Urban Boatbuilders is a youth service agency that uses wooden boatbuilding as a means to support positive youth development, academic achievement, and the development of a variety of hard and soft skills that help young people find and keep jobs. We work with young people in schools, after school, and in correctional settings.

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Wednesday Night Open Shop
On Wednesdays nights volunteers help prepare material and parts for building projects. Our volunteers learn the fine points of traditional wooden boat construction while helping make our youth building projects possible. 

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