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The perfect project now you have put the boat to bed! Come and get your ditty on at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.

Join us in the Waterline Center for a Sunday morning workshop and make your own ditty bag. These bags have been used by sailors for centuries and have many uses from tool bags to produce bags. Please bring your own lunch!

Sunday, November 10th from 9am to 1 pm. All materials are provided and cost per bag is $40. For more details see the website here : https://www.essexshipbuilding.org/museum-store/ditty-bag-workshop

Saturday November 2nd from 6-9 pm
Come have a beer with us at our annual Biergarten
fall fundraiser. Tickets include a colorful mix of
German food, a silent auction full of amazing items
(some made here in the shipyard) and a cash bar
with beer donated by the Great Marsh Brewing
Company.
Tickets can be purchased on our website or at the
door.

18th Annual Fall Fundraiser on Saturday, November 2nd, 6 to 9pm

For more details and advance tickets please follow the link below: https://www.essexshipbuilding.org/museum-store/biergarten

The Essex Shipbuilding Museum took a group of students, from Topsfield Vocational Academy,  that built the clamming skiff on a  trip last Friday.  They left from Conomo Point and rowed the clam skiff, with two of the museums fleet of Sharptown barges to two clam flats (Seal Bank and Town Nub), where the students learned how to clam with a fork and by hand. Their teacher Mark Webster and professional clammer and project partner Ian MacDougall, of Hermit Crab Industries, showed the students how to harvest the clams.  When they had dug enough clams (soft-shell and razor), they had a clambake on the flats followed by a row back to Conomo Point. A great way to end a tremendous project, they built the boat and then put it to work.

Sign up for the Art Festival in The Shipyard at Essex Shipbuilding Museum ! Register here : https://capeanncommunity.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/cb957-callforartesm2019.pdf