Voyager Summer Youth Camp 2025 (Ages 13-17)

07/07/2025 09:00 AM - 08/15/2025 04:00 PM ET

Description

Join us this summer for an exciting, new, all-day youth program combining the considerable strengths and history of the Hudson River Maritime Museum, now in its 46th year! The HRMM Voyager Program offers a truly unique, multi-activity, hands-on opportunity for young participants. 

Open to all skill levels, our Seafarers (9-12 years old) and Navigators (13-17 years old) will spend each day sailing for three hours, practicing boat building and woodworking for 90 minutes, and participating in other STEAM activities involving history, crafts, games, and tours on our solar tour boat Solaris, all while fostering learning, friendship, and adventure. Seafarers and Navigators will come together for a mid-day lunch onshore.

The program is led by professional woodworkers, museum educators, and US Sailing Certified Instructors who help participants explore how STEAM principles apply in the woodshop and on the water.

The Voyager Program will run for six one-week sessions from July 7 through August 15. Spaces are limited, so be sure to sign up early. Please choose at least one session at checkout. You may sign up for multiple sessions. NOTE: the membership discount will be reflected in the final price displayed on the last checkout page. Classes are held rain or shine each day they are scheduled. We sail in light rain, but if thunderstorms threaten we stay ashore and do other activities.

Times: Mon.-Fri., 9 AM to 4 PM
Sessions: July 7-11  |  July 14-18  |  July 21-25
July 28 - Aug. 1  |  Aug. 4-8  |  Aug. 11-15

Ages: Seafarers (9-12 years old) & Navigators (13-17 years old)
Lead Instructors: Wayne Ford, Max Smith, Gray Lobell
Skill level: Basic - Advanced

Registration
Household Member & Above: $675*
General Public: $750
Registration closes one week before each session begins. 

*We encourage you to become a household member ($60) to receive discounted class tuition. You must be a current member on the date of registering to receive your discount. Please login to activate the discount. To become a new member, please sign up here, or call 845-338-0071. Scholarships are also available: click here to apply.

About Our Instructors: Wayne Ford is a master woodworker and shipwright with extensive timber framing experience. His experience includes participating in the restoration of the sloop Woody Guthrie and the sloop Clearwater. He teaches a wide range of woodworking classes, YouthBoat boatbuilding, timber framing, and special project classes at the Wooden Boat School. Max Smith is a multidisciplinary craftsman with ten years of experience in woodworking in various forms, stringed instrument repair and making, piano tuning and repair, boatbuilding, cabinetmaking, and as Maintenance Coordinator for the Beacon Sloop Club. He is a full time instructor at HRMM. Gray Lobell grew up in New Paltz and started sailing as a student at HRMM in 2017. A few years later he became a sailing mentor for the school, and since then he has worked with HRMM as a sailing instructor teaching kids and adults of all ages. Gray is a US Sailing certified Small Boat Level One Instructor, as well as a US Sailing certified Basic Keelboat Instructor, and is currently Head Youth Sailing Instructor.