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Page 6. MAINE COASTAL NEWS June 2009
Waterfront News
M A I N E M A R I T I M E A C A D E M Y N E W S
MMA's Sail Training Cruise to Include while the other three will take place during will learn to cook and prepare the day’s meals, scientific and seafaring leadership of Admiral
Celebration of Arctic Exploration port visits and during the journey home to clean the food preparation area, and conduct Donald MacMillan prior to the vessel’s with-
CASTINE – The professional and student Castine. provisioning and menu planning for the voy- drawal from Arctic service in 1954. During
crew of Maine Maritime Academy’s (MMA) According to Captain John Worth, small age. that time, BOWDOIN sailed 28 degrees north
schooner BOWDOIN began preparations vessel master at MMA and coordinator of Once underway, cruising experiences of the Arctic Circle, and wintered over four
earlier this week to embark on a series of this year’s BOWDOIN itinerary, Canadian will include watchstanding, navigation tech- times in the region while frozen in ice.
summer sail training expeditions. This year’s organizers approached the college in 2007 niques, underway maintenance, and seaman- MacMillan became internationally known for
sail training cruises will take the BOWDOIN and requested the BOWDOIN’s participa- ship. This year’s voyage plan includes stops his explorations in the far north and received
to Newfoundland and Labrador where the tion in the upcoming event. Bartlett’s original in Halifax, Sable Island, Prince Edward Island, Hubbard Gold Medal of the National Geo-
historic schooner is scheduled to serve as a sail vessel, the EFFIE MORRISSEY, now Cape Breton, Isle de la Madeleine, St. Pierre, graphic Society in 1953. He was also well-
traveling ambassador for Celebrating Bartlett known as the ERNESTINA, was scheduled to and Miquelon. Once in Newfoundland, the known for his inclusion of high school age
2009, an upcoming Canadian recognition of be out of service during the festival due to an vessel will continue sailing to festival events students in his epic expeditions. MacMillan
Arctic exploration. Celebrating Bartlett 2009 extensive refurbishment in nearby Boothbay for two weeks. and Bartlett sailed together during their ca-
will mark the 100th anniversary of Admiral Harbor. “With some creative planning and At the conclusion of the first trip and reers, but never together aboard BOWDOIN.
Robert Peary’s expedition towards the top of the cooperation of the organizers, we have upon arrival in St. Anthony, activities will The vessel most recently returned to the
the world in his renowned North Pole trek of been able to craft a sail training plan which include reprovisioning the boat, a change of Arctic during the 2008 season’s sail training
1909, and the extraordinary contributing role meets our student needs, provides them with professional crew members and students, cruise. All sail training activities take place
of Canadian national hero, Captain Bob outstanding sailing opportunities, and em- and several day sails for special guests of the under the direction of professionally li-
Bartlett. The schooner BOWDOIN, an Arctic braces the festival plans,” he said. celebration. “We’ll begin festival hopping censed seafarers.
expeditionary vessel of the same era, will According to Worth, students enrolled with a whole new student crew, those upper The historic schooner’s summer expedi-
serve as a working example of the type of in the spring sail training cruise course will class students completing their capstone tra- tions and associated port visits are in keeping
schooner sailed by Bartlett while carrying the carry out extensive preparations in port, with ditional sail experience. “In July and August, with the vessel’s overall mission to provide
celebration throughout the Provinces of plans for a noon departure on June 9. The the BOWDOIN will visit Brigus, St. John’s, hands-on sail training and public outreach.
Newfoundland and Labrador. The schooner group will sail the vessel to St. John’s, New- Old Perlican, Bonavista, Twillingate, St. An- Participation in the festival provides an inter-
is scheduled to set sail for Newfoundland at foundland, for the beginning of the port se- thony, Battle Harbour, Cartwright, L’Anse au national venue to inform the public about
12 p.m. on June 9. ries. The course serves as an introduction to Loup, Port au Choix, Norris Point, and Corner Maine Maritime Academy and enables the
In a press conference held in early Janu- the overall maintenance and operations of a Brook. At each port, all vessel logistics and BOWDOIN, the official vessel of the State of
ary in Newfoundland, The Honorable Clyde large, traditional sailing vessel. needs of the crew will be coordinated by Maine, to offer education on traditional sail
Jackman, Newfoundland’s Minister of Tour- Sponsored by MMA’s William F. Th- festival organizers. Traditional folk singers training techniques, the seafaring heritage of
ism, Culture and Recreation, announced that ompson School of Marine Transportation in Jim Payne and Fergus O’Byrne will perform at Maine, and the value of experiential learning.
the schooner BOWDOIN will visit 12 commu- support of an academic concentration in Sail each port while other festivities will include Celebrating Bartlett 2009 host agency,
nities in Newfoundland and Labrador as part Training, the course is designed for students music, food, lectures, and educational pro- the Historic Sites Association (HSA) of New-
of the celebration in conjunction with its with little or no prior sailing or boating expe- gramming. The BOWDOIN will offer open foundland and Labrador, is a volunteer, non-
annual sail training activities. The rience. The program began on Monday, May boat hours during each port call, with stu- profit organization that works in partnership
BOWDOIN will serve as host vessel while 18, with nautical activities based at the dents serving as hosts, educators, and tour with Parks Canada. Its mandate is to protect,
conducting four annual at-sea training college’s waterfront facilities. The 12 stu- guides. preserve and promote the province’s history
cruises for student enrolled in the college’s dents enrolled in the course are participating Built in 1921 at the Hodgdon Brothers and heritage. Complete details of the celebra-
Small Vessel Operations program. These re- in painting, rigging, cleaning, engineering, Shipyard in East Boothbay, now Hodgdon tion can be viewed at www.bartlett2009.com.
quired training programs will be conducted in voyage planning, and provisioning. Stu- Yachts, Inc., the BOWDOIN made 25 scien-
association with the festival. One course will dents will also work with the vessel’s profes- tific expeditions to the Arctic Circle under the
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