The New School nautical explorers again take to the water next Friday (September 27th) to launch their homemade boats in the Raritan Bay.

Building boats from milk-cartons (and other junk materials) has been a New School tradition since 1986. For a number of years the children at this ungraded elementary school have built boats from milk-cartons, starting with rafts and progressing to a large replica of the Santa Maria which was sailed on the Navesink one Columbus Day. Two years ago the students asked to build small boats. Working in groups of three (an older, a middle and a younger classer) the students built boats at school and later launched them in the Raritan Bay last Columbus Day creating a day of adventure and fun for parents and students.

This year the students are again building small boats. This week each group built a base of milk cartons for their boats. The students have been collecting and counting and graphing the number of milk cartons since the end of the last school year. Next Friday they will build the superstructure of their boats on the beach and then launch them in the Bay behind the Spy House in Port Monmouth. Parents will be helping with his event.