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Northshore October 2025
When Brianna Wickard first joined the boat-building apprentice program at Lowell's Boat Shop in Amesbury, she had what she describes as a "confidence issue." “Do not let me touch any tools,” she warned. The 18-year-old had moved to Amesbury from Upstate New York less than two years before. She had no building skills or maritime knowledge. “I think I was 14 the first time I saw the ocean,” she says. And she’d never even heard of Lowell’s Boat Shop. That is, until she participated in “Math on the River,” a partnership between the shop and Amesbury High School, which teaches students hands-on
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