Different Drum Sailing Adventures

Chesapeake Bay Sea Week

Live-aboard educational sailing adventures on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay!
Use the knowledge you've learned in the classroom and apply it to real life situations while living aboard the 46’ ocean sailing yacht, Boundless. Use math and geometry to figure distance, time, speed, or the height of a lighthouse on shore. Take water samples to test salinity, pH, and pollution levels. Study the history of the Chesapeake and meet the watermen who make their living on the Bay. Do all that and learn how to sail during a week long program designed to combine adventure with learning!

5 day Potomac River middle school Sea Week program: During a Sea Week trip you'll get hands on experience learning to sail a 46 foot ketch. You will learn how to raise sails, tie knots behind your back, work with parallel rulers and dividers then chart a course, follow navigation markers through narrow channels, maintain and operate a 62 hp diesel engine, raise, lower, and set anchors, row a dinghy, operate an outboard and that's on the first day! You will also help fix meals, help maintain the boat, go swimming, explore a beach for fossilized sharks teeth, learn to predict weather changes, and travel to at least 4 different destinations. Most of your trip will take place on the lower Potomac River where it meets the Chesapeake Bay with a possible side trip into the Bay if weather and time allow.

7 day Chesapeake Bay high school Sea Week program: You will learn and do everything that's covered in our 5 day Discover trip and more! Sail past Smith Point lighthouse on into the Chesapeake Bay to uninhabited Watts Island. Dinghy ashore and observe the sights and sounds of this wildlife refuge. Sleep under the stars at night as you learn to identify the constellations. Then head the boat north or south, whichever way the wind blows, and spend the day ashore exploring the seaport towns of Onancock, Crisfield, Oxford, or St. Michael's. Exploration, fun, music, and laughter all go together during a Sea Week adventure!

Navigation and chart reading
Dolphin watching
Star gazing
Sailing skills
Math - History - Biology - Marine Science
Academic credit
Certificate of completion
Environmental awareness

*These are sample itineraries. All travel during any Sea Week program is subject to change due to
weather conditions and forecasts. The safety and comfort of both vessel and crew are our primary
concern. Trips are customized to meet the needs and educational interests of each group.

Article on Sea Week from the Virginia Home Educator
How can your school benefit from Sea Week?
Sample Itinerary

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