Yaquina Neversink

The Oregon Coast STEM Hub started working with the Lincoln County School District in the summer of 2024. The crew working on the project described their miniboat name’s meaning as follows: “Our team built the boat at Hatfield Marine Science Center, which is situated along Yaquina Bay on the central Oregon Coast. Yaquina Bay is named for this area’s first inhabitants, the Yaquina, Yacona, or Yaqo’n Indians, so the first name of the boat represents our bay and honors the Native Americans whose land we now live on. We chose ‘Neversink; because we are confident that our boat will long be seaworthy.”