Date to be announced.

Waterside Workshops’ Boatshop offers a week of woodworking and on-water paddling camp every summer! We are excited to offer 11-14 year-old students a fun and engaging week-long day camp in which we will spend half our time using hand tools to build a paddle and develop other woodworking skills. The remainder of our time will be spent on the water, paddling our outrigger canoes and rowboats at the Aquatic Park in Berkeley, the South Sailing Basin (next to the Cal Sailing in Berkeley), or by taking field trips to other destinations around the Bay (SF Maritime Museum, etc.). These outings will be weather dependent. 

Our main goal is to enable young people to safely develop woodworking skills using hand tools and to gain confidence paddling on the water. At the Boatshop, our paddle making project is the initial project we start with all students so they can learn basic woodworking skills and have exposure to the hand tools we use in building boats in our shop. We run a program steeped in maritime history and tradition and believe it is equally important to be on the water as it is to be in the shop.