The BMA is a comprehensive four-year program combining Marine Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies around a Maritime theme, and featuring:

• Rigorous, college-prep curriculum
• Field trips and guest speakers
• Orientation sail camp at SailSandPoint
• Project-based learning
• Internship in a local maritime industry
• Annual adventure expeditions
• Small student / adult ratio

The BMA Fleet

Students use the school’s boats to learn maintenance, repair and boat handling skills:

• Jumezra is a 22-foot Pearson Electra sailboat, perfect for racing or cruising.
• Cadet is a 36-foot wooden tugboat. She is a former logging tug with a single diesel engine, single screw, and classic lines.

Links

• Ballard High School
• Youth Maritime Training Association
  
  
• Ballard Maritime Academy Home Page