Brooklyn Oyster Dory Middle School Project

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The reason I got into this whole thing—boatbuilding—started with the idea that the waterways are a public resource: Nobody owns them.

Most of the work I do for NY Harbor Foundation (aka Billion Oyster Project) is centered around oyster restoration and field-science education; I’m often out in the field repairing broken gear or replacing oysters for public-school science teachers whose classes are monitoring the growth of their own ‘adopted’ mini oyster reefs. Boatbuilding is the other part of the job; in addition to supervising the afterschool program at the Harbor School, we’re running a middle-school afterschool program this spring at Industry City, where we’ll be building the second “Brooklyn Oyster Dory.”