Port Townsend Maritime Academy

Port Townsend School District, West Sound Technical Skills Center, and the Northwest Maritime Center


Port Townsend High School Maritime Career and Technical Education Programs


Set Your Course for a Maritime Career

Knowledge -- Skills -- Experience

The mission of the Port Townsend Maritime Academy is to train and inspire Washington State's Future Maritime Workforce through innovative, rigorous, and hands-on educational opportunities.

The PTMA serves high school and middle school youth from around the Olympic Peninsula and is a Port Townsend School District Program run in conjunction with West Sound Technical Skills Center, the Northwest Maritime Center, Schooner Adventuress (Sound Experience) and Schooner Martha Foundation.

Current Programs:

The Port Townsend Maritime Academy:

    • Open to all area Juniors and Seniors (PT, Chimacum, Quilcene, Poulsbo, and beyond!).

    • West Sound Tech Skills Center Satellite Program held at NW Maritime Center

    • Meets School Year from 8:20 am - 1 0:50 am daily.

    • Earn 3 Credits: English Language Arts, CTE, and PE.

    • Earn Coast Guard Credentials, Sail, Boat, Build.

    • More information at: West Sound Tech Maritime Registration is now open www.wst.smapply.org

Port Townsend High School Maritime Career and Technical Education Classes (open to all PTHS Students):

    • Maritime Studies: Vessel Operations/Boatbuilding

    • Maritime Manufacturing (Woodworking)

West Sound Tech - Port Townsend Schools - Summer School Programs.

    • Maritime 101: Adventures at Sea Summer Vessel Operations Class.

    • Open to all incoming freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors for the school districts within WST consortium.

    • Registration Information is Pending due to Covid-19. Check Back in June.

Maritime Internships and Apprenticeships for High School Students.

      • Summer Internship aboard Schooner Adventuress

      • Summer Internship aboard Schooner Martha

      • Summer Internship at NW Maritime Center


For more information contact kwatson@ptschools.org



Practice makes proficient.

Watch a real Coast Guard Rescue where these same skills had to be put to the test (not by our students!).

Students in the PT Maritime Academy will earn their USCG Fishing Vessel Safety Drill Conductor Courses. Every commercial fishing vessel by law must have at least one person certified with this... and now you can see why!