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Sail Training for Ages 13-25
What could be better than spending summer days exploring the beautiful BC coast while learning to sail a traditional tall ship?! Our nine and ten day summer trips collectively circumnavigate Vancouver Island. Our ships are the 111’ topsail schooner Pacific Swift and the 138’ gaff rigged schooner Pacific Grace. Formal sailing instruction is provided, and no previous experience is necessary. Trips ashore and rousing mug-ups round out this life changing experience! Click the trip below for more detailed information. If the cost is a barrier, bursary money is available to help cover it.
| Summer 2012 Trips |
Dates*
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Trip One: |
June 30 - July 8, 2012 (nine day trip)
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Trip Two: |
July 13 - 22, 2012 (ten day trip)
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Trip Three: |
July 27 - August 5, 2012 (ten day trip)
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Trip Four: |
August 9 - 18, 2012 (ten day trip) |
Trip Five: |
August 22 - August 31, 2012 (ten day trip) |
*Please note summer 2012 trip dates were revised on September 29, 2011.
Activities
Each trainee coming aboard is assigned to a bunk and a watch. As a member of that watch, he or she will take part in every aspect of life aboard: raising and lowering sails; galley work; bosun's chores; steering the ship and anchor watch at night. In addition to being trained as crew aboard a large sailing vessel, trainees will be instructed in the following skills:
- chart work and navigation
- rope work and knots
- theory of sailing and rules of the road
- history of sailing and small boat handling
| I am definitely not the same young individual I was before I left on my SALTS trip and I will never forget the experiences or the people I met. |
| Summer 2011 Trainee |
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