Tabor Boy

Recently after an early morning sunrise walk, I swung by East Beach to get some more steps in before heading home and I was glad I did as I happened to see this ship the SSV Tabor Boy

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the SSV Tabor Boy is a unique educational asset of the Fort Tabor Academy. The Tabor Boy is a ninety-two foot, gaff-rigged, two-masted schooner that has been a part of the school since 1954. SSV stands for “Sailing School Vessel” and is the U.S. Coast Guard’s designation for the schooner. She is one of two Coast Guard inspected vessels in her class that operate in the northeastern United States. Tabor Boy is inspected and constructed as suitable for off-shore, open ocean passage making.

each fall and spring the schooner is used as a sail training vessel. The crew is comprised of twenty-two students under the leadership of Captain Jay Amster and a student executive officer (XO). Team-building and character-building are hallmarks of the program in addition to sail training and seamanship. During the summer the schooner takes groups of 12-15 incoming Tabor students on one of six, week-long cruises off the coast of Massachusetts, combining an ocean ecology and sail-training curriculum.

I first saw in from a distance as this next shot shows

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So of course I had to take a stroll to get a closer view of it, of course I would love to have seen it sailing with the sails up but that was not meant to be