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June 2023
Maritime Skills
The Dirty Blue Shirts will demonstrate, teach, and give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience with canvaswork, ropework, netting, knotting, and knitting, chantey singing and more! Stop by several times and learn new things.
Rope Making
with Dirty Blue Shirts
Sailors used many kinds of ropes made of different fibers for different jobs. Learn about these fibers and jobs, and use your own muscle power to twist the fibers into ropes.
Maritime Skills
The Dirty Blue Shirts will demonstrate, teach, and give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience with canvaswork, ropework, netting, knotting, and knitting, chantey singing and more!
Dogwatch
with Dirty Blue Shirts
How did sailors get free time on board ship and what did they do with it?
Dead Horse Ceremony
with Dirty Blue Shirts
Your opportunity to participate in the sailor’s ceremony in which they celebrated paying off their debts to the ship’s company. All the money they earned from that point on was theirs. The Dirty Blue Shirts will teach the music and you can sing along.
Maritime Skills
The Dirty Blue Shirts will demonstrate, teach, and give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience with canvaswork, ropework, netting, knotting, and knitting, chantey singing and more!
Rope Making
with Dirty Blue Shirts-
Sailors used many kinds of ropes made of different fibers for different jobs. Learn about these fibers and jobs, and use your own muscle power to twist the fibers into ropes.
Maritime Skills
The Dirty Blue Shirts will demonstrate, teach, and give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience with canvaswork, ropework, netting, knotting, and knitting, chantey singing and more!
Maritime Skills
The Dirty Blue Shirts will demonstrate, teach, and give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience with canvaswork, ropework, netting, knotting, and knitting, chantey singing and Dead Horse Ceremony!
Dogwatch
What’s a Dogwatch? The Dirty Blue Shirts will answer that question and you’ll learn what sailors did in their free time on board ship and perhaps you’ll try out some of these activities.