Performance Goals

The Gig Harbor BoatShop is a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit corporation and will focus on three main goals: 1) Stewardship of the historic Eddon Boatyard; 2) The interpretation, for the public, of a working boatyard and the local working waterfront; and 3) The teaching of traditional and contemporary maritime skills reflective to our local working waterfront and the traditional family operated boatyards of the Northwest.

Stewardship
The Gig Harbor BoatShop, with tenancy at Gig Harbor's historic Eddon Boatyard, will be directly responsible for the stewardship and maintenance of the historic boatyard structures, including the dock and marine railways. The preservation findings of the Historic Structures Report - Eddon Boat Yard, prepared for the City of Gig Harbor in July of 2006, along with the Secretary of Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, will guide the plans and policies for the rehabilitation and restoration of the facility. GHB plans for programmatic and interpretive use require little in the way of substantive alterations to the facility.

Interpretation
The Gig Harbor BoatShop will interpret the Eddon Boatyard for the public through traditional and contemporary maritime programming at the boatyard facility, with passive public access to and through the boatyard, through on-the-water programming and by sponsoring events that celebrate Gig Harbor and Northwest maritime culture. Gig Harbor's traditional working waterfront has been and continues to be, comprised of private maritime business properties and fishing family properties with little historic opportunity for public access. Public ownership of Eddon Boatyard has opened the door for the public to experience a real working boatyard through public access and maritime heritage programming, and in turn, for those authentic participants of the local working waterfront to share, interpret, and pass on their working waterfront expertise and experience to the public.

Education
The Gig Harbor BoatShop will serve the community by providing premium quality maritime programming and maritime events at the Eddon Boatyard that will include:

• Programs and workshops designed around boat-building, boat repair, boat restoration, boat maintenance and the skills of the working waterfront.
• Maritime workshops and programs devoted to contemporary and traditional skills, both recreational and vocational, required aboard small craft and larger vessels while under-way.
• The hosting of maritime events and vessels launchings for the community.