Ocean Classroom Foundation to Relocate in Boothbay Harbor, ME Ocean Classroom Foundation, a non-profit educational organization that provides programs of sea education and adventure for the youth of America, is leaving Rockland and Rhode Island to make Boothbay Harbor its new home.
Soren Larsen sets sail on a South Pacific Adventure ASTA member tall ship Soren Larsen has sailed from Auckland New Zealand to start another South Pacific adventure – and is currently half way to Easter Island and making 10.5 knots in the roaring 40’s of the Southern Ocean. Read the Captain's Logs
News from the SV CONCORDIA
The students of Class Afloat have been completing high school classes and sailing the S.V. Concordia on our passage from Penang, Malaysia to Male, Maldives. While at sea, the students partake in regular classes, including a class on Seamanship and Navigation, as well as standing two-hour watches during the day and at night. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be on deck during a long passage, the following articles, written at sea, describe what our student “Floaties” do every day during day on the Concordia.
U.S. Brig Niagara Focuses on Sail Training over Port Visitation For the first time in sixteen years of operation, the U.S. Brig Niagara will shift focus in summer schedule planning from port visitation programs to onboard sail training programs. Now that Niagara is inspected by the US Coast Guard as a Sailing School Vessel, we are creating our sailing schedules around our 3-Week Seamanship Training Program.
BURSARIES FOR AMERICAN TALL SHIP VOYAGES! The UK Tall Ships Youth Trust are pleased to announce that special bursaries are now available for young people aged 16-25 to take part in the ASTA Tall Ships Challenge Atlantic Coast Series along the east coast of the USA on the UK Tall Ship Prince William.
Spirit of South Carolina to launch on March 4! The Spirit of South Carolina is set to launch into Charleston Harbor on March 4, 2007 at approximately 12:00 noon! It will be amazing sight after so many years of hard work, inching towards the mission of serving students with education-at-sea opportunities.
This summer, in partnership with Tallship Unicorn,
Sisters Under Sail™ will conduct a series of sail
training leadership programs for girls age 13 to 21
along the East Coast, Long Island Sound, New
England and the Canadian Maritimes. Calling ALL Sisters ...
2006-2007 Six-month Square Rig Apprenticeship Program. This winter, the Picton Castle offers you the rare chance to join a few other fortunate young men and women to become a real, square-rig qualified seafarer, sailing among the exotic islands of the Caribbean. This is serious, hands-on seamanship and sailorizing, and quite a bit of work. It is also, without doubt, the best possible way to learn about the sweet islands and rich way of life of the Caribbean.
To commemorate the silver jubilee of the Sail Training Vessel Fair Jeanne, the foundation is planning a circumnavigation of the eastern United States and Canada starting in Kingston, Ontario, in July 2006 and concluding back in Kingston in the fall of 2007...
Look forward to a great reunion with those who sailed with Captain Irving and Exy Johnson, aboard a YANKEE, being hosted at Los Angeles Maritime Institute, San Pedro, November 10-14! We’re looking for World Cruise Crew, Ketch cruisers, Mariner Girl Scouts, friends, families, and other ‘Yankee fans’ of the schooner, brigantine and ketch variety.
This past August marked the 20th anniversary of the first educational program aboard the pungy schooner LADY MARYLAND. To celebrate the event, Living Classrooms Foundation (www.livingclassrooms.org) will be throwing Sail-a-bration at the Pier Six Concert Pavilion in Baltimore on October 8, from 1-7 pm.
The World Ocean School's first annual fundraiser aboard the Roseway
Friendraiser The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles Rector Josef Lisowski of the Gdynia Maritime University The Polish American Congress of Southern California And the Los Angeles Maritime Institute Invite you to dinner and a slide presentation of the Polish tall ships to announce the upcoming voyage to the U.S. by the Gdynia Maritime University’s vessel
What it like to be a member of the crew on a tall ship participating in the TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® series? Ask the crew of the Picton Castle! Read the Captain's Logs.....
The Sail and Life Training Society (S.A.L.T.S.) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Loren Hagerty as the new Executive Director of the organization.
Bytown Brigantine of Ottawa, operators of the 110-foot Sail Training Vessel Fair Jeanne, will be offering a unique training opportunity during the course of a major southern voyage to be carried out by the vessel over the winter of 2006-2007.
Last fall, classrooms from throughout West Michigan entered the Friends Good Will ‘Name the Classroom’ Contest to assign a name to the classroom on the Michigan Maritime Museum historic replica tall ship.
Lunenburg , NS – West Island College International (WICI), the Lunenburg Academy Foundation, the South Shore Regional School Board and the Town of Lunenburg have formed a unique new partnership and are pleased to announce Lunenburg as the base of operations for WICI’s premier education experience Class Afloat and NEW shore campus.
Come along and set sail with New Haven's flagship, Schooner Quinnipiack, for days and nights filled with fun and entertainment along Connecticut's coastline.
Adventuress is maintained by the nonprofit organization Sound Experience, whose staff and volunteers offer youth sail-training and environmental education programs as well as adult, family and Elderhostel voyages throughout Puget Sound for eight months out of the year...
Pride of Baltimore II is sailing across the Atlantic Ocean en route to Baltimore. The ship departed Saint-Nazaire, France on March 12, 2006 and is on course to arrive in Baltimore the last week of April....
Captain Aaron Singh, the skipper of the South Street Seaport Museum's schooner Pioneer, didn't come from a yachting or sailing background. He is the son of immigrants from Trinidad, and he grew up in the Stanley Isaacs housing projects in the East 90s of Manhattan. As far as he knows, no one else in his family was ever a sailor. He got his first taste of sailing at the age of 12 as a member of a Sea Scouts troop that met on City Island in the Bronx...
Experience the most glorious trade-wind sailing in the world - join the crew of the Barque Picton Castle as she sails from Cape Town in early March on an epic passage to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Beautiful deepwater sailing in the most perfect South Atlantic conditions, visit the west coast of Africa, island hop through the Caribbean, learn bonafide square-rig seamanship sailing thousands of miles in the world girdling Barque, join your new shipmates in an ocean adventure of a life time...
The 180-foot sailing ship Barque PICTON CASTLE, just returned from her fourth epic voyage around the world, will visit the Great Lakes in July and August. Sailing from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in late June 2006, the Picton Castle will take part in the American Sail Training Association's 2006 TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE®, Great Lakes Series...
The Department of Conservation and Recreation is seeking proposals from qualified individuals, organizations, corporations, institutions, community based or educational partners for the annual operation of the educational sailing program and tourist attraction programming for the Schooner Ernestina...
The Flagship Niagara League and Erie Maritime Museum announce the start of a Seamanship Training Course, which will be offered on board the US Brig NIAGARA throughout the summer of 2006...
If you volunteered, cheered, bought a pass or a T-shirt, sent a smile to a sailor or a gift to a ship, did laundry or interpreting for a crew, you helped earn Tacoma the highest honor the American Sail Training Association gives to Tall Ships® hosts...
Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., a fleet of tall ships and a long list of VIPs were in Chestertown on Friday, Nov. 4 to take part in Sultana Projects' launch of its historic reproduction of Captain John Smith's “barge of discovery.”
Pride of Baltimore II, Maryland’s Goodwill and Economic Development Sailing Ambassador experienced rig failure while sailing from Torquay, UK to Santander, Spain. Pride II has been in Europe since late May fulfilling her mission as ambassador for the State of Maryland and the Port of Baltimore...
The South Carolina community is clearly embracing the Spirit of South Carolina. Merely one month after announcing a Leadership Gift of $125,000 from entrepreneur Kevin High, The South Carolina Maritime Heritage Foundation announced additional commitments today of $500,000, which take the project's capital campaign past the $2 million mark..
