General – Education Team/Administration
Marci van Cleve
A 2008 American Red Cross “Hero” Award recipient for, “25 years of saving young peoples lives through educational excellence”.
Marci is an extraordinary teacher who received her teacher’s credential in 1971. She founded Quimper Academy in 1982 and co-founded PI (Partners In Education) in 1986, a ground-breaking approach to alternative schooling within the Chimacum School system. In 1994 she began ICE (Individualized Choice Education) another alternative program this one with the Port Townsend school district. Next she co-founded Puget Sound Explorers, an accredited on-the-water adventure class in partnership with the Wooden Boat Foundation (1995). In 2003, she began the PI String Orchestra, in partnership with the Turtle Bluff Orchestra and Andy Mackie Foundation. Now in 2008 she is co-facilitating the “Voyaging” program a partnership of PI, ICE, and the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding.
Marci has the uncanny ability to unearth a student’s latent passion and ignite it into educational excellence. She is exceptional at building partnerships that create innovative opportunities for youth to succeed.
Captain Wayne Chimenti
Master Mariner (USCG 1,600 ton all Oceans Auxillary-Sail license), Rigger (master rigger of five Tall Ships) and Sailmaker (owner of Force 10 Sailmaking and Rigging) with 31 years in sailtraining. Twenty different schooners and square-riggers throughout the world have given Wayne a unique overview of on-the-water programs. Wayne and Marci did the first longboat programs for Jefferson County in 1993. Now settled onto Marrowstone Island, he spends time with the local high schools mentoring students in the way of the sea. He uses his degree in Marine Biology and a passion for the environment to educate youth in an eco-appropriate manner of going on the water.
Wayne has received the 2009 Peninsula Daily News/Jefferson Rotary award – Heart of Service Award for organizing the Voyaging Class/Community Boat Project.
PSVS
Mary Beth Armstrong
Captain of the Schooner Adventuress, the veteran Environmental flagship of Puget Sound, M.B. (as she is known) is a well-known experiential educator of ships Tall and small. She was Education Director at the environmental education organization Sound Experience (1999-2001) and brings educational innovation to sail training. Since 1991, she has been involved with youth programs at camps, colleges, drug recovery ranches, and many on-the-water organizations. She has been Captain of the Puget Sound Explorers maritime program since 2002 and skippered Outward Bound longboats prior to that. Captain of the Schooner Martha and Camp Four Winds Carlyn, she is intimate with Puget Sound waters. Currently she holds a USCG 100 ton Masters license.
CBP
Ray Speck – Master Shipwright
Ray Speck has been building boats for 40 years. He has studied worldwide and was awarded his “Master Boat Builder’s” certificate from NW legend Bob Prothero. Ray built 35 boats in his Sausalito, CA. shop before moving to Port Townsend. He has been an instructor at the NW School of Wooden Boat Building since 1992. He has many published articles and is an avid sailor.
Designer and builder, Ray is the epitome of a “Master” in the craft.
Sailor Scientist
Nahja Chimenti
In her youth Nahja was raised in the world of maritime education, sail training and environmental programs. Now with her captain’s license in hand she follows in her father’s footsteps working as a captain/educator for both PSVS and the NW Maritime Center. Her other professions are those of traditional Sailmaker and Rigger.
Interns
Penelope Partridge
Elisabeth Palmer
Annie Teater
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