LAMP Boatworks

Community Collaboration: A Power for Good Makes a Great Contribution to our 450th

Community Collaboration: A Power for Good Makes a Great Contribution to our 450th

amy.gress2015-09-16T10:25:41-04:00September 16th, 2015|

This article first appeared in the St. Augustine Record on Sunday, Sept. 6th. In 2007, the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum received a special category grant from the state of Florida for the First Coast Maritime Archaeology Project. In addition to funding nautical archaeology in the Nation’s Oldest Port, the grant paid for a visit to the Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, to obtain documents important to St. Augustine’s past. The research trip, [...]

Lighthouse Seeks Volunteers and Docents for Boatbuilding Program

amy.gress2015-05-14T09:46:20-04:00May 14th, 2015|

Just in time for the city’s 450th celebration, residents are invited to be part of history by volunteering with the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum’s traditional wooden boatbuilding program. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. – For much of St. Augustine’s early history, wooden boats were a ubiquitous part of city life. Our ancestors built these watercraft by hand, a tradition that is now being carried forward by the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum’s Boatworks program. With three projects [...]

First Chalupa Sea Trials Completed

amy.gress2015-04-07T08:00:23-04:00April 7th, 2015|

The chalupa in her slings after launch at the Camachee Cove Marina March 11, 2015 The chalupa replica project hit a major mile stone this past Saturday, March 28, when it rowed out of Hospital Creek for the first time into Matanzas Bay. The craft was blessed and christened the San Agustín six days earlier on March 22nd at her home port located at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. This grass roots collaborative community [...]

Flipping the Yawl Boat

Flipping the Yawl Boat

amy.gress2015-02-19T15:24:51-05:00February 19th, 2015|

Thursday, February 19th, was a bright and beautiful sunny morning. It was also the coldest we have had in St. Augustine this winter with one Lighthouse neighbor observing 31⁰ F on his thermometer during the early morning hours. It seems a little much however, to be complaining about the weather in Florida while the rest of the country is blown and battered by record low temperatures. Regardless, the big news on this particular morning was [...]

Community Collaboration: A Power for Good Makes a Great Contribution to our 450th

Lighthouse Seeks Volunteers and Docents for Boatbuilding Program

First Chalupa Sea Trials Completed

Flipping the Yawl Boat

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