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August 2006: Sean Connaughton Confirmed as Maritime Administrator The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) issued a news release stating that Sean Connaughton has been confirmed by the US Senate to be the next Maritime Administrator. 

October 2005: Sea Education Association Offers SEA Semester to Hurricane Displaced Students

September 2005: Tall Ships Organization Names New Race Director

September 2005: Join the PICTON CASTLE World Voyage

August 2005: Freedom Schooner Amistad to Make Historic Visit to Newport

August 2005: Green Bay, WI to Host 2006 TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® Fleet

August 2005: Sail Training International Announces Major International Study into Value of Sail Training

June 2005: "Flat Nico" Sails to Europe on the USCGC Barque EAGLE! Follow his Adventures in the
Logs of Flat Nico

June 2005: CAPT David V.V. Wood Gives Commencement Speech to 2005 Class Afloat Graduates

June 2005: "Buccaneer's Bash!" ASTA Tall Ships® Fundraiser a Rousing Success

June 2005: Sail Training Community Mourns the Death of Long-time Member and SupporterLawrence M. Mahan

June 2005: Barque Picton Castle sets sail on Fourth Circumnavigation

March 2005: ASTA Member Organization Sea Education Association Humanitarian Rescue at Sea (see story and photos)

March 2005: 2006 TALL SHIPS® World Peace Cup Series Caribbean

February 2005: Ernestine Bennett Memorial Sail Training Scholarship Program

January 2005: Bay City, Michigan selected to host the 33rd Annual Coference on Sail Training and Tall Ships

December 2004: In Memory of Captain Uli Pruesse

December 2004: Tall Ships Race and "Festival del Mar" To Celebrate Santander 250th Anniversary

December 2004: Harvard Business School Volunteer Consulting Unit Selects American Sail Training Association

August 2004: TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® Atlantic Coast 2004 Race Series Highlights of the summer

July 2004: Now Showing at the ASTA Tall Ships® Gallery selected photographs of marine photographer Wojtek (Voytec) Wacowski

June 2004: Now Available through the ASTA Office! 2004 TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® Official Souvenir Program

September 2004: John K Bullard to give Opening Keynote Address at 32nd Annual Conference on Sail Training and Tall Ships

August 2004: ASTA introduces Susan Genett's RealWeather, Ltd. a company specializing in custom global weather forecasts

August 2004: American Sail Training Association's TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE ® Series Elected to 2004 Associations Advance America Honor Roll

July 2004: News from the Road - Greenport, NY hosts ASTA TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® Soccer Game

June 2004: Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy Joins Martin Luther King Jr. Center Campers Aboard Aurora

March 2004: 2004 PACIFIC REGIONAL MEETING to be held Saturday, April 3, 2004, at Jack London Square, Oakland, CA - Details

March 2004: 2004 ATLANTIC / GREAT LAKES REGIONAL MEETING was held Saturday, March 20, 2004, at SEA in Woods Hole, MA - Details

February 2004: Tacoma Selected 2004 Tall Ships® Conference Site

February 2004: Maine Maritime Academy offers Tall Ships Curriculum - Detail

November 2003: 30th Anniversary Commemorative Edition of Sail Tall Ships! A Directory of Sail Training and Adventure at Sea. Now Available. Order Yours Today

November 2003: ASTA Announces the 2003 Sail Training Award Winners!

August 2003: Logs of the ASTA Race Crew - TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® Great Lakes 2003