{"id":189,"date":"2014-09-26T19:32:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/waterfront\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2014-09-30T01:51:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T01:51:25","slug":"sail-training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/waterfront\/schooner-bowdoin\/sail-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Sail Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sail Training<\/h1>\n<p>Maine Maritime Academy is the only college in the United States with a dedicated sail training program that actually leads to a USCG license as mate on an auxiliary sail vessel. Students may start with no prior sailing experience and graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree, a USCG license, and all necessary certificates. As a student at MMA, you will have the opportunity to develop a network of connections throughout the sail training industry.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll learn to sail on our fleet of sailing dinghies, gradually working your way up to skipper the 35 foot schooner <em>Puritan<\/em> (a Crocker designed gaff-rigged wooden schooner), then our 50 foot ketch <em>Blue Angel<\/em>, and finally our 80-foot, 1921-built, wooden schooner <em>Bowdoin<\/em>. You will work your way through a challenging series of tacks, jibes, heaving-to, anchoring, and man overboard recovery, all under sail.<\/p>\n<p>The Auxiliary Sail Concentration is based on the Small Vessel Operations curriculum, which is a non-regimented program. Membership in the Regiment of Midshipmen is, however, available to all interested students.<\/p>\n<p>Successful completion of the first two years of program requirements, will qualify a student to test for the 200-ton, near coastal mate\u2019s license, and an Able Seaman\u2019s document. With sufficient qualifying sea time under sail, and a sail addendum exam, this license is endorsed for Auxiliary Sail.<\/p>\n<p>Upon the successful completion of the four years of program requirement, a student will qualify to take the USCG exam for the 500-ton or 1600-ton (depending upon sea service completed), near coastal license.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How To Become a Sailor\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/waterfront\/schooner-bowdoin\/sail-training\/how-to-become-a-sailor\/\">How to become a sailor<\/a>\u00a0by Andy Chase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sail Training Maine Maritime Academy is the only college in the United States with a dedicated sail training program that actually leads to a USCG license as mate on an auxiliary sail vessel. 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