My Wisconsin Backyard
All Hands Boatworks
Season 2021 Episode 60 | 3m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
Some Milwaukee youth are sharpening their woodworking skills by building rowboats.
Some Milwaukee youth are sharpening their woodworking skills by building rowboats. Our cameras went with them the first time that they launched one into the water and went for a ride.
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My Wisconsin Backyard is a local public television program presented by MILWAUKEE PBS
My Wisconsin Backyard
All Hands Boatworks
Season 2021 Episode 60 | 3m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
Some Milwaukee youth are sharpening their woodworking skills by building rowboats. Our cameras went with them the first time that they launched one into the water and went for a ride.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(sea birds chirping) (gentle music) - We work with young people throughout the city of Milwaukee to inspire, educate, and mentor them to find success in learning.
And the way we learn is through hands-on projects.
It can be for some people an almost transformative experience, plus we're building something real and authentic, a form of transportation that's been around for thousands of years.
(bandsaw whining) - It's a good way to stay out of trouble and have new hobbies that can benefit you further in life.
- A way to learn different things, a way to learn how to do different things, like before I came here, I wouldn't have known how to build a boat, put certain pieces of wood together.
It could help me if I wanted to make that a career, being a carpenter or something, if I wanted to just build something one day.
- I'm not the best academically, but I do try my hardest.
I've really come to love this woodworking and it's opened a lot of career paths for me.
(chain rattling) - [Instructor] This is it.
(cheerful music) - [James] The St. Ayles we've been working on for, give or take, five, six years, and we are at a really good place with it right now.
- So we're very excited about the launch of our largest boat.
It's a 22-foot, four-person rowing gig that was built over the course of five years here as part of an after-school teen mentoring program.
- [James] I am so excited.
I remember when there were huge holes in the boats, so to see it not have huge holes in the boat and to actually be in the water is just really, really pleasing for me and really makes me happy.
- It is really cool to see, 'cause it's like seeing your own child grow up and it's like you finally get to say that I did it, I built this boat and show it off to different people.
- Getting older, I might go to college for it and be a carpenter and do something where I can build stuff and put stuff together or a engineering type of thing.
- I knew I wanted to do something with my hands but I didn't know quite what.
I think I wanna try my hand at furniture making.
I've managed to get the skills to create the things.
Now I wanna create my own things.
(upbeat gentle music)
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