BAEP Students Make Mother’s Day Gifts using Computer-Aided Design and CNC
Our BAEP students made some beautiful Mother's Day gifts!
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05, 2015
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05, 2015
BMC Volunteer Featured in Erie Yacht Club’s Log
The Erie Yacht Club's Log recently had a feature article on Christopher Laird, one of BMC's dedicated volunteers and a inveterate sailor. Chris is a mentor for our Project
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04, 2015
Porcupine Hiatus in Lone Star Waters
Porcupine Hiatus For two weeks, I briefly hung up my quills to serve as Chief Mate aboard the Barque Elissa. Launched in 1877, this 205 foot iron-hulled ship sails out
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04, 2015
THANK YOU to Gannon University’s Chemistry Department and Environmental Science Club!
THANK YOU to Gannon University's Chemistry Department and Environmental Science Club for doing their 2015 Day of Caring service at BMC. The volunteers did maintenance work on our gravel
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04, 2015
Porcupine Featured in Wing & Wing Schooner Newsletter
Wing & Wing, the official newsletter of the American Schooner Association included a story about BMC's Porcupine Project in their Spring edition. Design and drawings by
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04, 2015
Spring Session of Project SAIL Underway
The spring session of Project SAIL started this week and we have another crew of motivated high-school students who are engaged and preparing for their futures. Apprentices are learning
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04, 2015
A Well-Shod Porcupine
Here at the Porcupine Project, things are getting heavy. Or rather the latest drawing from Naval Architect Iver Franzen is of the heaviest part of Porcupine—the ballast keel. The hull came
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04, 2015
BMC Purchases Cutting Edge SawStop Equipment
Thanks to the generous support of Erie Insurance, BMC staff and students are assembling a new SawStop table saw. Table saws cause tens of thousands of serious injuries every year.
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04, 2015
Porcu-pining for Spring
While it was technically the first week of spring, the weather for last Friday’s “Gunboat Gathering” carried the bite of a wet winter wind across the largely ice-shelled waters
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Schooner Porcupine Community Support
We're off to a good start and are continuing to seek community sponsors, donors, and partners.