Hull Lifesaving Museum - Maritime Apprenticeship Program

Contact: 22 Drydock Avenue, Boston MA 02210, (617) 443-1900
Executive Director: Lory Newmyer

The Hull Lifesaving Museum, a museum of Boston Harbor heritage, preserves the region's lifesaving tradition and maritime culture through collections, exhibits, experiential and interpretive education, research, and service to others. The museum's open water rowing programs in Boston Harbor educate young people about themselves while developing a constituency that takes stewardship for its maritime history.

Maritime Apprentice Program
The Maritime Apprentice Program (MAP) operated by the Hull Lifesaving Museum at our urban facility in Boston's Marine Industrial Park, is a career exploration program offering year-round training for young men and women in the custody of the Department of Youth Services. MAP creates viable, entry-level employees for the vibrant Maritime Trades industry in the port of Boston. Students learn use of tools, basic carpentry, and marine electrical, plumbing and engine systems. They also learn job readiness skills, workplace and financial literacy, and explore life skills in depth.

Working in our fully equipped boat shop in downtown Boston's Seaport District, and on a fleet of traditional rowing boats in Boston Harbor, MAP assists young people annually in a spectacular transition from idleness and social alienation to high-level civic engagement. The program provides hands-on, shop-based training, supported by individual and group counseling, remedial and business education, and work readiness preparation.

Twenty students enroll annually in July, and all receive a minimum of two years of services. The program operates 30 hours per week, Monday-Friday during July and August, and 24 hours per week, Monday-Thursday during the school year. In September, when half of MAP's enrollees re-enter school and/or part-time work, the other half continues in the year-round MAP Program, beginning a year of intensified training, education, and internships preparing for full-time careers in the Maritime Trades.

Program Directors: Lory Newmyer and Ed McCabe