ROCKLAND — The Apprenticeshop has welcomed Capt. Terry Moore as their new Seamanship Director this spring. Terry will bring his lifelong career and expertise in boat-based experiential teaching to further enhance The Apprenticeshop's mission to offer meaningful experiential programs through traditional boatbuilding, sailing, and seamanship.

Terry grew up at the mouth of the Chesapeake, spending his formative years exploring the tidewaters of Virginia in small craft. He became an avid sailor during his junior year in college when he participated in a semester at sea. With a childhood interest and passion for being in and on the water, it was that opportunity to study seamanship with Long Island University's SEAmester that galvanized his career path. After graduating from William and Mary with a degree in Chemistry, Terry spent a summer working aboard a day-sailing schooner out of Montauk, Long Island, before serving for two years in the Peace Corps as a marine fisheries volunteer stationed on a coral atoll in Micronesia. After the Peace Corps he returned to the states, obtained his USCG 100-ton near coastal captain's license, and began managing an on-the-water marine science education program with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

It was the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School that brought Terry to Maine in 1990. He served as a watch officer aboard pulling boats for many years, then as an instructor at the WoodenBoat School, teaching their coastal cruising class. Terry's affiliation with The Apprenticeshop goes back to long before he joined their team: in the 1990s he served as captain for the historic Snorri expedition, a Viking boat project envisioned by writer Hodding Carter, built by former apprentice Rob Stevens with John Gardner, and led by Terry in an expedition retracing Leif Erikson's voyage as outlined in the Norse Sagas. For nine years he and his wife ran the Eagle Island mail boat where they raised their two boys. Today they live in Camden.

As The Apprenticeshop's Seamanship Director he will serve as Head Instructor of the Community Sailing program, will lead seamanship training and Penobscot Bay expeditions for apprentices and groups, is instructing the Oceanside East Fisherman's Academy, and will spearhead The Apprenticeshop's new Boat Livery Program, making traditional wooden row and sail boats available to the local and visiting community for rent by the hour. If there is one thread that runs throughout Terry's career, it is his love of boats, the ocean, adventure, and boat-based education for youth and adults — passions and skills he will bring to The Apprenticeshop's programs and active waterfront.

Since 1972 The Apprenticeshop has been a school of traditional boatbuilding, seamanship and sailing, dedicated to inspiring personal growth through craftsmanship, community, and traditions of the sea. They offer 2-year apprenticeships, 12-week intensives, short courses, workshops, youth and adult Community Sailing, a small boat livery, and various waterfront services. Located at 655 Main Street in Rockland's North End. FMI: 207-594-1800 or online at apprenticeshop.org.