Rocking the Boat San Francisco

10/20/2025

Thanks for the shoutout @sfchronicle ! Read the article at the link in our bio!

10/14/2025

What a weekend at the Park!

10/10/2025

Community Rowing is back! Come check us out from 11-3 on BOTH Saturday 10/11 and 10/12!

Saturday will also see the Fleet Week Family Day celebration at India Basin Waterfront PArk! Come check out lots of kid's activities, bands and Community Rowing, of course!

See you at the waterfront!

10/07/2025

Come check us out and get on the water for Community Rowing this Saturday!

Celebrate Fleet Week with a day of music, food, and family fun at India Basin Waterfront Park (900 Innes Avenue) on Saturday, October 11 from noon to 4 p.m. Enjoy free jump houses, outdoor games, haircuts, and live performances by Afterthought and The Top Chefs and the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West’s Travis Brass. The stage program begins at 1 p.m.

Interested in supporting this event? Volunteer to help facilitate youth activities, including face painting. For more information and to sign up, visit ibwaterfrontpark.com.

10/03/2025

So awesome to see the place-making efforts of our friends San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, and SF Children and Nature! All SF kids deserve access to the outdoors, and everything there is to learn there!

09/26/2025

Meet our materials!

Our students are learning to 'read' wood grain like a story - understanding how the tree grew and how that affects strength; deducing how it was sawn from that tree into lumber; and deciding how to utilize each piece in a way that takes advantage of its strengths and minimizes its weaknesses.

Every piece of lumber has character, and our boat builders are learning to work with that character to create something stronger than its individual parts.

Fall program has room for 2-3 more students - message us this week to join!

What's your favorite natural material to work with? Wood? Clay? Stone? Share below!

We are taking a short break from Community Rowing - we'll see you in October!

09/18/2025

Teamwork makes the dream work! Students from our program keeping the game going as long as they can.

But what does this have to do with boatbuilding? More than you think!

Nobody needs a wooden boat anymore - wood working is very much about the process, about getting better each time, about being functional and graceful. "Infitinte Games" like the one our students are playing here demonstrate that its not about what level you can get to, how many HP your player has, or what the prize is. The reward is seeing what we can do with our own hands after a little practice.

What are your favorite "infitine games?!"

09/11/2025

Want to learn to build a boat? Row it on the Bay? Play with, ahem, learn the fundamentals of hand and power tools? There is still room for more students in our upcoming Fall Afterschool Program!

Its completely FREE! All students get a warm meal and snacks, access to our partners for Social Work services and service refferrals, field trips around the Bay Area and more. Students who develop a foundation of skills and stick with us for at least 3 semesters can GET PAID to help us fix boats and help deliver the program to new students.

Check the link in our bio to send in an application and we'll get in touch!

09/04/2025

Some scenes from the end of our summer program and our capstone rowing experiences around Hunter's Point and on the Cityfront with the South End Rowing Club!

This could be YOU! There is still room in our Fall Afterschool Program and we are currently accepting applications. Especially if you live in Bayview - Hunter's Point or go to school nearby, send us a note to learn more. Our FREE program is fun and hand's on, and students will build a boat from start to finish over the next school year. Link in bio!

08/22/2025

Cool stuff at Rocking the Boat! See you on Sunday!

08/02/2025

Community Rowing is TODAY! Swing by India Basin Waterfront Park for FREE rides on our student built fleet of rowboats. It's First Saturday on the Waterfront, too, so there will be a ton to do! Band, kids activities, food trucks!

See you at the Waterfront!

07/24/2025

Summer is for ROWING!

We have been hitting the water as much as we can this summer. Something about being out there, away from the hustle and bustle of the city... there is nothing like it!

We got a visit from today for some pro-level tips to up our on-water game. We are aiming to join them for Wooden Boat Classic in August on the city front. Let the training begin!