Spirit of Bermuda heads to the Canadian Maritimes

The Spirit of Bermuda has begun her second major exhibition of the summer and is bound for the Canadian Maritimes.

The Bermuda Sloop has 15 trainees and eight professional crew aboard and will stop at five ports on her journey.

The itinerary includes Sable Island; Fort Louisbourg, Nova Scotia; Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; Rockport, Maine; and Gloucester, Massachusetts where she will take part in the Gloucester Schooner Race on September 5 before returning to Bermuda.

The offshore expedition is part of Spirit's 'post-middle school' pathway, which provides opportunity for older students (14-21 years of age) and college graduates to obtain real-world leadership experience.

“This expedition follows our earlier Jamestown expedition, and will have a similarly rich shore-side programme,” said Malcolm Kirkland of the Bermuda Sloop Foundation. “The voyaging and shore-side experiences provide invaluable training to our older youth who can then take up paid intern positions on Spirit and receive more training towards formal maritime occupations.”