Sail Training News A symposium on "Sail Training and Small Boat Programs for Troubled Youth" will be held at the Omni International Hotel, Baltimore, 18-21 October, concurrently with the fourth annual National Correctional Trainers Conference. The symposium and the Correctional Trainers Conference will co-host a panel on "Sail Training for Young Offenders." Members of the panel will describe successful coastwise and deepwater sail-training programs for youth at risk in the US, Canada and the UK, including New Beginnings for Youth (Ottawa), the STA Schooners (UK), OceanQuest and Solstice (USA). They will also discuss issues of safety, liability, program development and evaluation, leadership, selection and sponsorship. The two-day symposium is being sponsored jointly by the American Sail Training Association and Portsmouth Sail Training. (Susan Bailey, ASTA, 365 Thames Street, Newport, RI 02740, 401 846-1775; Portsmouth Sail Training, PO Box 1303, Portsmouth , NH 03801, 603 436-0439; or Dr. Albert E. Hickey, Program Chair, 617 862-3390) The Sea Education Association's new brigantine Corwith Cramer joined with
SEA's schooner Westward late in May, and promptly put to sea with SEA Class #100, the first of many six-week oceanography and sail-training programs she will take to sea in the years ahead. The l 34ft Spanish-built brigantine is the first vessel built under the Coast Guard 's new Sailing School Vessel Regulations. (SEA, PO Box 6, Woods Hole, MA 02543; 617 540-3954) The new topsail schooner Pride of Baltimore II was launched 30 April in the Inner Harbor before a crowd of an estimated 100,000 people, among them Congresswoman Helen D. Bentley, who christened the ship , Mayor Kurt Schmoke and Governor William D. Schaefer. Historic vessels on hand included theBill ofRights, Bowdoin,Spirit of Massachusetts and Gaze/a of Philadelphia. Under the direction of Peter Boudreau, twelve shipwrights (and a small force of volunteers) are building the replica Baltimore clipper to plans by naval architect Thomas Gillmer. Sea trials are scheduled for September and commissioning ceremonies for October. Pride of Baltimore, Inc. , has raised $3.6 million towards its goal of$4.5 million. Your donation will help and entitle
you to receive the Pride's newsletter. (Mary Sue McCarthy, Pride of Baltimore, Inc., JOO Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21202; 301 625-5460) After five years of research Square Rigged Services, Ltd., have announced plans to build a five-masted auxiliary bark for the cruise industry. H. F. Morin Scott and Colin Mudie, known for their sail training vessels Royalist, Lord Nelson and Young Endeavour, have designed Champion of the Seas, a 420passenger cruise ship which they anticipate will break many ocean speed records for vessels under sail. Two companies, Skysail Cruises Ltd. in the UK, and Royal Skysail Line, Inc. in the USA, have been formed to float the project. Because of the highly advanced design and technological improvements in sail design and ship handling, there will be only 27 seamen among her crew of 180. (Square Rigged Services, Ltd. , Commercial House, Station Rd. , Bognor Regis , West Sussex P02 l l QD UK; 0243 826-877)
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