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No Summer Break for Schooner Appledore IV

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Welcome Aboard!

Appledore IV had an almost full spring season with 4Science Under Sail classrom trips from April to mid-Jun

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BaySail will be hosting its irst annual fundraising event called BaySail SummBreeze on Thursday, August 21. The evening promises to be memorable as guedine and dance dockside to the big band sounds of Detroits Rhythm SociOrchestra at the Wenonah Park Friendship Shell.

VIP and General Admission tickets are available. VIP tickets are $60 and incla catered dinner from the DoubleTree Hotel and preferred concert seating. GeneAdmission tickets are $15 and include access to food vendors and concert seatiCash bars are available in both areas.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact the BaySail ofic(989) 895-5193 or email Scott Ellis atscotte@baysailbaycity.org.

Scott Ellis, Marketing, Communications & Special Projects Mana

Plein Air Art Discorvery

August 13, 20, 27 &September 3. Integrating

art and nature on boardAppledore IV.

Windward Bound Voyages

August 2-7 & August 7-12.Set sail on these once in alifetime youth sail training

voyages.

Family Ecology Sail

August 19. A day of exploringthe ecosystem of the SaginawBay with the whole family.

Appledore IVs Crew and Shipboard Educators had an almost full spring sewith 48 SCIENCE UNDER SAIL classroom trips from April to mid-June and welconearly 2,000 students on board. While most schools and students are enjoying sumvacation, the schoonerAppledore IVhas been busier than ever!

In June,Appledore IV travelled to Detroit to participate in Detroit River Dayswelcomed many visitors on board during dockside ship tours. She then travellMonroe, Michigan for 2 Community Outreach sails on the River Raisin and

Erie. These two sails hosted 8o guests from the Michigan Agricultural EnvironAssurance Program, Michigan Farm Bureau, and area farmers interested in leathe best practices to help reduce non-point source pollution while conserving soi

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Lunch & Dinner Sails

Most weekends inAugust & September.

Enjoy a relaxingafternoon or evening sailon the Saginaw Bay.

Summer Breeze Fundraiser

August 21. An evening ofdining and dancing docksidefeaturing Detroits RhythmSociety Orchestra.

Autumn Color Tours

October 4-5, 11-12 & 18-19.Enjoy the fall foliage while

cruising the Saginaw River.

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Five years ago I approachedthe U.S Fisheries ofice in Alpena,MI about working with BaySail onprojects to engage our trainees in

research. We were looking for handson activities for students on weeklong trips; something we could do to

help researchers and get our traineesthinking about life below the surface.We started with a data collectionproject studying the spread of the

Round Goby, a small exotic invasiveish species now common throughoutthe Great Lakes. While there was alot of data on this species collectedin the Saginaw Bay, the AppledoreSchooners travelled to spots wherethere had been little data collected such as in Lake Hurons NorthChannel. We have continued toparticipate in the Goby study forseveral summers, bringing minnowtraps with us to deploy at anchorages

from here to Chicago.This year our Director of

Education has added another projectfor our participants plastics. Duringour Windward Bound voyages wevebrought aboard researchers fromthe University of Michigan who areinterested in plastic pollution in theGreat Lakes. Participants are activelyengaged in collecting and studying

samples taken at multiple locationsWe learned on our irst voyage thatLake Huron is pretty clean at thesurface much cleaner than Lake Erie

When we meet up with theresearchers next, I will be interestedto see what they found after puttingthe samples under the electronmicroscope. Anyone visiting the beachcan attest to the amounts of debris thatis left to inhabit our lakes. You can indshoes, bottles, rubber balls, coolersand ishing gear among other thingsWhat happens after these items breakdown into microscopic pieces is notwell known. The potentially negative

effect on our lakes is one more reasonto limit consumption of disposablepetrochemical products. Much of theplastics we use are in our lives foronly a brief period of time. Then theseproducts spend their remaining life ina landill or in our lakes.

Captain David Leanza, Director of

Operations

ITS ALL ABOUT PLASTICS!

water. You can read more about these collaborative educational sails with MAEAP and the Michigan Farm Bureau byvisiting their website.

The schoonerAppledore IVthen travelled down to Cleveland, Ohio for educational and public sails at the GreatLakes Science Center. The shipboard educators and crew introduced elementary through junior high students to theart of tall ship sailing and the unique ecology of Lake Erie.

Back in Bay City the shipboard history educators, Dick Crooks and Les Smith, have been busy teaching public saipassengers about the historical uses of the Saginaw River.

Keeping to BaySails mission of fostering environmental stewardship of the Great Lakes, we have introducedFamily Ecology Sails to the list of public sailing opportunities this season. The irst 2 Family Ecology Sails were welreceived by a growing number of families. Im hoping to help even more families discover and explore the SaginawBay watershed in August!

Coming up in August, BaySail will host three Plein Air Art Discovery Cruises. This new program was made

possible with a grant from the Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs and partnerships with SVSUs MarshallM. Fredericks Sculpture Museum and Studio 23/The Arts Center. Cruises will be offered each Wednesday, August13 September 3 from 12 p.m. 3 p.m. Each cruise is limited to 25 participants ages 8 years and older.

The Fall SCIENCE UNDER SAIL season will be here before you know it. We already have 2 classrooms from AuGres-

Sims Elementary School scheduled to participate in the new school year. In September we look forward to reachingeven more 3rd and 4th grade classrooms with our new Michigan History voyages called HISTORY UNDER SAIL.

Greg Allington, Director of Education

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Its been a dificult summer in the world of shipboardeducation programs.

Within the last week, we learned the VirginiaMaritime Heritage Foundation has cancelled programs asof September and will be putting its tall ship up for sale.The schooner Virginia was built in 2005 and is a 126-foot wooden replica of the last pilot schooner to sail theChesapeake Bay.

This sad announcement comes on the heels of the newsthat the Ocean Classroom Foundation in Maine is closingits doors after nearly 20 years of sail training education.OCF has been an icon in the sail training community,providing innovative voyaging and semester at seaprograms for thousands of young people. Its rumoredthat the organizations three ships, the schooners HarveyGamage (1973), the Spirit of Massachusetts (1984) andWestward(1961)will be put up for auction.

The tall ship community is not so very large. The lossof an organization or a vessel in the service of sail training

or shipboard education is deeply felt by those of us whostay the course. At BaySail we are ever mindful of howdificult it is to sustain a shipboard education program andalways look to these dificult circumstances as learningopportunities. Among the take-aways for BaySail arethese salient points:

(1) We remain thankful that Appledore IV is a steel-hulled vessel. Wooden ships require an evengreater amount of very expensive maintenance.

(2) Weve found another reason to appreciate the

Great Lakes. Fresh water is not nearly as corrosiveto ships (wooden or steel) as salt water is.

(3) We were deinitely on the right course when wecreated an organization that provided programs tothree diverse audiences: environmental education,sail training/character building and tall shipsailing adventures for the public.

(4) Never take anything or anyone for granted.

BaySail has weathered the same economic luctuatas almost every other organization over the last ten ye(for- or non-proit alike). It hasnt all been smooth sailbut weve been around for more than 16 years God willing, we plan to be around for many more. Wcontinue to ight the tide? Why work so hard on a shipcan only sail 6 or 7 months out of the year? Why engin a constant exercise to update programs to meet e

changing standards of education?Because we are in the unique position of see

irst-handalmost every daythat what we do

changed the lives of the people we serve.

Not a day goes by that we dont hear from a classroeducator who talks about what they learned as a studteacher aboard Appledore many years ago and hthose lessons still apply today. Or talk to a professioenvironmentalist who recalls a 5th grade SCIENCE UNDSAIL experience aboardAppledoreand ponders how experience inluenced his career choice. Or celeb

with a former deckhand who has since graduated fthe Michigan Maritime Academy and now sails wresearch scientists in the North Sea for the Woods HOceanographic Institute. Or see the faces of the peowho stroll the Downtown Bay City riverfront and sto admire the tall ship that has become a ixture of community.

We and others like us do what we do because it makdifference. Ongoing support of sail training and shipboeducation programs is importantaround the woacross the country and in our own backyard. BaySail been able to sustain itself, in part, because of your supp

And we ask for your support once again as we embarka new adventure August 21st with Summer Breeze, foray into the world of annual fundraising events. Joinfor an elegant evening of dining and dancing. Join uexperience a beautiful summer evening with incredentertainment. Join us to show your support for Bayand its programs aboard the regions only tall s

Appledore IV.

Shirley Roberts, Executive Dire

Farewell & Fair Windsto Old Friends

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