Join the Gundalow for a one of a kind teacher workshop: Exploring our Watershed Our Professional Development programs are designed to bring teachers and educators together aboard the Gundalow for a chance to experience the Piscataqua River first hand. During your time on the boat you will have the opportunity to collect plankton, discuss our watershed, try your hand at using our scientific equipment and experience sailing on the only operating Gundalow in the world. The workshop is designed to immerse educators in our maritime heritage and marine environment while providing them with ideas for transferring these ideas into the classroom. […]
Dominique Salvacion has announced that she has been offered an exciting opportunity and a significant promotion to go work at Idexx, a large global corporation based in Westbrook, Maine. She will be in charge of special events for veterinary clients as well as trade shows for veterinary products all over the US. We are thrilled for her opportunity and wish her all the best. Gundalow board, staff, and crew. July 8, 2016
Join us this summer for our summer speaker series sails. This summer we welcome 14 speakers out on the Gundalow for a series of lively discussion on Contemporary Coastal Issues that affect our region. Our 2016 series features expert guest speakers from around the region that will join us to discuss fun and informative topics from local maritime and naval history to ecological and scientific issue. This summer is one of our best yet! Choose a topic, bring a picnic, and join us for a sail. Or better yet – come for the whole series. Tickets for these two-hour sails are a special low […]
This Tuesday: July 12, 2016 join Jeff Barnum for a sail aboard the Gundalow and hear about the Challenges Facing Great Bay Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper, through the Conservation Law Foundation working to address water quality issues throughout the Great Bay estuary. Jeff has a thorough knowledge of the estuary, having served as president of the Coastal Conservation Association of NH (CCA), where he focused on the health of our estuarine ecosystems. As a recreational fisherman who has fished Great Bay and the Piscataqua River, Jeff has witnessed first-hand negative changes caused by water pollution, such as the loss of […]
Join the Gundalow and Steve Weglarz for a sail and talk about Oyster Farming on Great Bay. Steve Weglarz Steve grew up near the beach in Lynn, Massachusetts, learning about the ocean by exploring the tide pools and watching The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau TV series. He worked 2 summers on a gillnetter out of Nahant, wrestling dogfish bound for the UK fish and chips market. After graduating from UNH with a Bachelor’s degree in Zoology, Steve worked for 11 years as manager of a commercial Atlantic Salmon farm for New England Fish Farming Enterprises in Bristol, NH. He […]
Join the Gundalow and speaker Rebecca O’Brien as we head out for a sail and a talk. Rebecca O’Brien – Surfrider Rebecca served on the Portsmouth Zero Waste Committee from 2010-2011 passionate about helping our community strive to limit our consumption of non-recyclable packaged goods and find commonsense solutions to reducing waste. Portsmouth Zero Waste and the Gundalow Company are both coalition members of Surfrider Foundation’s Rise Above Plastics (RAP) initiative to: help mitigate the detrimental effects thin film, two-handled plastic carry-out bags are having on our communities, waterways, coastline and marine life. In 2013, Rebecca became very involved in the Ban […]
Enjoy a special concert sail on the PISCATAQUA with the Overtones on Saturday, July 9, 2016 from 3:00 to 5:00PM. Enjoy a glorious summer afternoon of friendship and A Capella music while sailing down the river aboard the gundalow PISCATAQUA with Portsmouth Pro Musica’s ambassadors of song! Tickets for this special event are $50 each and refreshments will be served. Buy your tickets now!
Celebrate Fathers Day abroad the gundalow PISCATAQUA this Sunday, and bring your father for free! We have three great sails to choose from, while tickets are still available. Up-River Sail from River House Dock – 12:00-2:45pm – $35 adults, $18 children under 13, FREE for your Father! Join us for an extended up-river sail departing from the River House Restaurant dock and sailing under three bridges. Sail past the towns of Kittery, Newington and Eliot. Picnics welcome or pre-order lobster rolls from the River House. This sail will end at the Prescott Park Dock, just a 5-minute walk from the River House […]
This Tuesday: June 15, 2016 join Jeff Barnum for a sail aboard the Gundalow and hear about the Challenges Facing Great Bay Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper, through the Conservation Law Foundation working to address water quality issues throughout the Great Bay estuary. Jeff has a thorough knowledge of the estuary, having served as president of the Coastal Conservation Association of NH (CCA), where he focused on the health of our estuarine ecosystems. As a recreational fisherman who has fished Great Bay and the Piscataqua River, Jeff has witnessed first-hand negative changes caused by water pollution, such as the loss of […]
The Gundalow Company is joining forces with several local groups to help clean up Great Bay. Together with Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership and UNH Cooperative Extension/The Stewardship Network: New England we are staging a 1 day clean up of multiple sites around Great Bay. During the month of May, volunteers around Great Bay have spent hours in their kayaks and canoes, surveying the shores of Great Bay to locate and map garbage and marine debris. Sadly, they found a lot. Check out the photos of some of their finds, below. Now we need more volunteers to help to clean it up! […]
