OVERNIGHT SEAMANSHIP CAMP

With the DSC's overnight Seamanship Camp your child has the opportunity to explore the beautiful Chesapeake Bay as part of the crew of a 43-foot cruising sailboat.

For five days and four nights your child will live aboard the sailing vessel Pintita, led by United States Coast Guard-certified captain Phil Schnering. The DSC's Seamanship Camp is a fun-filled learning package offered to children between the ages of 10 and 16. Seamanship Camp provides live-aboard opportunities on the Pintita for six young sailors to learn teamwork, seamanship and other seafaring skills like:

• Steering
• Navigating, including plotting a course, planning a voyage, reading charts
• Pilotage
• Reading a compass
• Interpreting and using weather reports
• Anchoring
• Trimming sails
• Driving the boat’s dinghy and using an outboard motor
• Docking and handling lines
• Raising the sails
• Tacking, jibing and maneuvering

Pintita campers stand regular watches as helmsman, lookout and sail trimmer. In addition, each child will have the chance to act as navigator for one day of voyaging. Once the Pintita is at anchor for the night, campers will learn to operate the Pintita’s dinghy’s outboard motor – they might even get the chance to make a supervised trip to shore to explore one of the  Maryland's quaint bay-side towns like Oxford, St. Michael's or Galseville. Campers also have the opportunity to swim beside the Pintita most days either in the evening or the morning. Your child can also take a class under way to earn a Maryland Certificate of Boating Safety Education. This certification, which never expires, requires about eight hours of study and allows your child to operate a motor vessel in Maryland waters.

The Downtown Sailing Center is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit community sailing center.
Located at The Baltimore Museum of Industry
Photography donated by Andy Herbick Photography, and others.