Tacoma Youth Marine Center - Helping youth touch the Sound!
Tacoma Youth Marine Center presented by the Youth Marine Foundation in Tacoma, Washington -- Helping youth touch the Puget Sound!

Youth Programs

Tacoma Youth Marine CenterA Normal Winter Day
The center will have boats to be hauled out and bottoms painted, gas sales and repairs. There will be school classes in the building teaching environmental studies. Hands on training in mechanics and woodworking will be on the ground floor. In the evening there will be Sea Scout Meetings and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and Power Squadron licensing and navigation classes.

A Normal Summer Day
The center will have boats to be hauled out and bottoms painted, gas sales and repairs In addition there will be sailing, kayaking, rowing, and motor boating classes., Youth will repair boats, and plan events. In the evening, there will be regular meetings, as well as teaching. Families will take boats out for an evening sail or row. Skills development classes involving boats will intensify in the spring as people prepare for the summer boating season.

Weekends
Use intensifies as the Sea Scouts attend work parties, and boat related activities. The big boats get underway for training. There are Boy Scouts working on Merit Badge Training. A Naval ROTC team group learns ship handling and seamanship skills. The 4-H brings in their long boat and the Sea Scout ship Vértié practices for the Pacific Challenge international regatta.

Tacoma Youth Marine Center presented by the Youth Marine Foundation in Tacoma, Washington -- Helping youth touch the Puget Sound!
Tacoma Youth Marine Center presented by the Youth Marine Foundation in Tacoma, Washington -- Helping youth touch the Puget Sound!
Tacoma Youth Marine Center - Helping youth touch the Sound!