Volunteer educator and retired Dow chemist Dick Crooks shows students aboard the Appledore IV how to find dissolved oxygen using the Winkler reaction. Image: BaySail
BaySail in Bay City, Mich., is a 15-year-old non profit organization that teaches students through scientific observations and measurements of weather, water quality, aquatic life, and human impact on the environment, says Scott Ellis, the Lake Huron organization’s communications manager. Lessons on board the tall ship Appledore IV encourage collaboration with peers and experts.
The Appledore IV. Image: Francis Lalonde
Some 43,000 students from schools throughout Michigan have been aboard.
A new program launched this year called Windward Bound is a weekend long, sailing and camping trip for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other youth groups. They sail from Bay City to Tawas and participate in shipboard and land-based environmental education and sail training.
Learning to hoist sails. Image: BaySail
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