Register for 2025 Summer Camps Today!
We’re excited to welcome Kip and Kristin Otteson to the BoatShop again summer of 2025 as we blend their background in outdoor experiential learning with our expertise in maritime programming for another summer of outstanding camps! BoatShop camps emphasize hands-on learning in a fun, maritime setting on the working waterfront in Gig Harbor, WA.
What happens at Summer Camp?
2025 Camps & Dates
-All Camps: 9AM - 4PM daily -
~ 2025 Camps ~
Pre School Camps
LITTLE SKIPPERS, LITTLE SHIPWRIGHTS
{Preschool & Kindergarten}
Monday July 1st - Thursday 4th Full
LITTLE SKIPPERS, LITTLE SHIPWRIGHTS
{Preschool & Kindergarten}
Monday July 7th - Thursday 10th
Elementary School Camps
JUNIOR SKIPPERS, JUNIOR SHIPWRIGHTS - EARLY ELEMENTARY -
{Grades 1st - 3rd}
Monday June 23rd - Thursday 26th
JUNIOR SKIPPERS, JUNIOR SHIPWRIGHTS - OLDER ELEMENTARY-
{Grades 4th -5th}
Monday July 14th - Thursday 17th
Middle School Camps
MARITIME ADVENTURERS FOR GIRLS
{Grades 6th -8th}
Monday July 21st - Thursday 24th Full
MARITIME ADVENTURERS
{Grades 7th - 8th}
Monday July 28th - Thursday 31st
High School Camps
MARITIME SKILLS FOR TEENS
{Grades 9th - 12th}
Monday August 4th - Thursday 7th
Want to meet Camp Leader Kip Otteson? Want to volunteer at the 2025 Gig Harbor BoatShop Maritime Summer Camps?
Then visit the Eddon Boatyard House - 3805 Harborview Dr, Gig Harbor - on Saturday February 22nd from 10 am to 3pm. Kip will be available to provide camp information, answer camp questions, and discuss possible volunteer opportunities.
About the Camp Leaders
Kristin and Kip Otteson operate an “urban forest preschool” in Loveland, Colorado based on “an inspirational process that offers ALL learners regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning and experiences in a natural environment.”
While the Otteson’s live in Colorado they are not new to the Northwest. They met at Pacific Lutheran University, got married on Fox Island, lived aboard a sailboat in Gig Harbor for two years and crewed aboard the local fishing vessel Beryl E.
Their teaching careers have taken them to the arctic in Alaska and the tropics of Thailand. Kip mirthfully says, “I tend to like students who dislike school,” and Kristin is focused on taking her preschoolers “out of the classroom every day of the week” regardless of the weather.
Outdoors, experiential, and now on-the-water and in the shop, are at the core of how and why they teach.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
info@gigharborboatshop.org or 253-857-9344