Youth enrolled at Piers Park Sailing Center share a rare opportunity to sail aboard the brigantine, Formidable. Young sailors will view the international flotilla visiting for Sail Boston while aboard the Formidable, a tall ship whose home port is Boston Harbor.
More than 160 local Boston youth ages 10 -16 years old participating in Piers Park Sailing Center’s fully-inclusive sailing programs will unofficially join this international sail training event. On July 8 the young sailors will become “sail trainees” aboard the 72-foot square-rigged brigantine and voyage throughout Boston Harbor.
In groups numbering 40, the kids will hoist sails, take a “trick at the helm” and learn how trainees aboard the Sail Boston visiting ships live, work and study while underway between ports. The mini-voyages around the harbor will introduce these boys and girls to new ways of life and possible maritime careers on the water.
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