A Boat for Everyone - March Campaign

We are trying to buy a new dedicated platform for the Floating Classroom. Help us close the gap on our $180,000 fundraising goal needed to launch the M/V Teal!

A fundraising campaign for Discover Cayuga Lake

Spring is just around the corner, and so is our launch date!  We're hard at work, and with a little help the M/V Teal, anticipated new home of Discover Cayuga Lake - Floating Classroom, should be ready to launch May 1! We've raised over $125,000 of our $180,000 capital campaign goal, and have some small grants and corporate matches currently under consideration, but we now need to close the remaining gap through individual contributions.

Why is this so vital? Well, our terms as a non-profit partner project of the Center for Transformative Action mean that we cannot take on loans or debt to operate. Therefore, we rely on this capital campaign meeting its fundraising goals on time in order to complete the purchase of the boat and start running programs in May.

We have an anonymous donor committed to matching your donations for the month of March. So, your generous gift can go twice as far toward getting us on the lake to expand our non-profit mission of environmental education and access to great experiences on the lake for everyone!

Recent work on the boat

March 13, 2018

The M/V Teal is currently at the north end of Cayuga Lake, and many people are hard at work to get it ready for Discover Cayuga Lake - Floating Classroom to take ownership. Here are photos of some recent progress.

All four hull compartments cleaned and ready to seal!

Hull scraped and fasteners inspected.

No more barnacles!

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