Coastal Heritage Alliance



		Apprentice Skill Training Click to view our apprentices hard at work restoring endangered historic vessels while maintaining traditional skills.

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	(Left) F/V Commencement, CHA's West Coast education and training vessel, is moored in Gig Harbor, WA. Built in 1926 by Skansie Brothers Shipbuilding and Transportation Company, Commencement was gifted to CHA in 2006 by the Michael and Paula Vlahovich family.


Coastal Heritage Alliance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to preserving the vessels, skills and stories of a proud working waterfront culture.