Marshalese students launch a traditional outrigger sailboat

English Language Learners enrolled in Shaw Middle School's summer school program built a traditional Marshalese sailboat this summer. The boat is being launched at Fish Lake.

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Wed., Aug. 23, 2017

Mandy Wallgren, 14, front, teacher Marcy Ray, centrer, and Mary Jingle Arcenas, in the stern, paddle a Marshallese-style canoe, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 on Fish Lake during a school outing from Shaw Middle School. The girls are part of the English language learning summer program, which built the boat as a project. Mnay of the students in the program are Marashallese. Tuesday was the first chance for the students to try the craft, which is based on traditional Marshallese canoes. The sail was never unfurled because there was no wind.

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Mary Jingle Arcenas, 15, right, steps into the canoe with Mandy Wallgren, 14, behind, while teacher Marcy Ray, left, waits to push off a Marshallese-style canoe, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 on Fish Lake during a school outing from Shaw Middle School. The girls are part of the English language learning summer program, which built the boat as a project. Mnay of the students in the program are Marashallese. Tuesday was the first chance for the students to try the craft, which is based on traditional Marshallese canoes. The sail was never unfurled because there was no wind.

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Marcy Ray, left, a teacher at Shaw Middle School, pushes a replica of a traditional Marshallese canoe, carrying Mary Jingle Arcenas, 15, center, and Mandy Wallgren, 14, right, on Fish Lake, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017during a school outing from Shaw Middle School. The girls are part of the English language learning summer program, which built the boat as a project. Mnay of the students in the program are Marashallese. Tuesday was the first chance for the students to try the craft, which is based on traditional Marshallese canoes. The sail was never unfurled because there was no wind.

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Scott Franz, right, pushes a canoe containing teacher Marcy Ray, right, and two students for the first voyage of a boat built by middle school students in an English language summer program at Shaw Middle School, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 at Fish Lake, south of Spokane. The other passengers are students Les Kaios, left, and Branley Bilimon, 12, center, students in Rays class in Shaws English language program, where several students are from the Marshall Islands. Franz, a classroom volunteer, helped the students build the boat.

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Scott Franz, left, holds the canoe as teacher Marcy Ray, right, climbs in for the first voyage of a canoe built by middle school students in an English language program at Shaw Middle School, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 at Fish Lake, south of Spokane. The other passengers are Les Kaios, center left, and Branley Bilimon, students in Shaws English language program, where several students are from the Marshall Islands. Franz, a classroom volunteer, helped the students build the boat and Ray is an English teacher.

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Gale Snyder and Scott Franz, riding in a canoe built by Franz, watch the progress of a school-built Marshallese canoe, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 at Fish Lake. Franz, who has some experience building and sailing wooden boats, helped English language students at Shaw Middle School build a style of Marshallese canoe and kids tried it out for the first time Tuesday.

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Mandy Wallgren, 14, front, and Mary Jingle Arcenas, in the stern, paddle a Marshallese-style canoe, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 on Fish Lake during a school outing from Shaw Middle School. The girls are part of the English language learning summer program, which built the boat as a project. Mnay of the students in the program are Marashallese. Tuesday was the first chance for the students to try the craft, which is based on traditional Marshallese canoes. The sail was never unfurled because there was no wind.

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, Students from Shaw Middle School paddle an outrigger canoe and several conventional canoes on Fish Lake Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 during an outing. The English language class students, many of whom are Marshallese, helped built the outrigger canoe based on designs used in the Marshall Islands.

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Students from Shaw Middle Schools summer English language program paddle an outrigger canoe on Fish Lake, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2107. The students built the boat from traditional Marshallese designs and tried out for the first time Tuesday, though there was no wind for sailing.

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Mary Jingle Arcenas, 15, foreground, teacher Marcy Ray and Maddy Wallgren, 14, behind, paddle a Marshallese-style canoe their class built, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 on Fish Lake, south of Spokane. The boat was a project of an English language learning class in which many are Marshallese.

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