Up to ten teams including family and teams are invited to participate in our 10th annual Wooden Boat Festival, building the Six Hour Canoe at our Wooden Boat Festival, June 7-8.

There are two options for families or community groups to participate this year.

First, a team can enroll to build their own boat to complete and take home that weekend. The cost for the entire weekend, including beautiful canoe paddles to be built by all youth members as well as all meals and refreshments for both days is $500.00.

Second, we are building boats with volunteers under a foundation grant, therefore families or community teams can enroll to build boats as a team for our recreation programs, but the cost is only $75.00 for the entire weekend including all refreshments, certificates, etc.

You will start at 8 a.m. Saturday Morning, June 7, and by 2:30 pm Sunday you will be in the water paddling your new canoe. Visit our Photo Gallery to see last years event.

Signups are right now through May 27, 2008. Call 732-671-5572 (Tom Gibson), or click here for a mail in sign up form (pdf) .

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A very busy 2007 summer. Here is what we did last year:

• NMHA Wooden BoatFest was held June 9-10, 2007 at the Fair Haven Fire House in Fair Haven. Ten boats were built by ten teams in a day and a half. Photos are here.

• YMCA at Arrowhead, Marlboro: Boat building 7/9-7/13/07. One boat.

• YMCA at CCC, Red Bank: Boat building 7/23-7/27/07. Three boats. These are now at Arrowhead.

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This program happens in the Summer of each year, June typically. It is usually a weekend event, and you will complete the boat in two days.

Alternatively, some hosts set up a five weekday event, three hours per day. In either case 12 to 15 hours suffices.

Look here for announcements a few weeks before then.