Overview Of the Tall Ship Intersession

• Intersession is a week of "school without walls" and this year is on the week of April 8th, 2012.
• This is the first Tall Ship Intersession (TSI) sponsored by the Bay School of San Francisco.  Nettie Kelly and Nic Fiszman are the faculty guides for this experience.
• Students aboard the TSI will learn the skills of sailing, navigation and teamwork to become the working crew of the vessel.
• The 2012 trip is all boys in the 10th, 11th or 12th grades.
• We will sail aboard the wooden schooner Bill of Rights.  The Bill is owned and operated by the American Tall Ship Institute based in Oxnard, CA. 
• We will be sailing in and around the Channel Islands, off the coast of Southern California.
• We will depart on Sunday April 8 (Easter) at 11am by van, and drive to Oxnard to meet the Bill.  We will sleep and live aboard the ship for the next five nights as we sail in the Channel Islands.  We will return to Oxnard early Friday morning (April 13) and drive back to San Francisco.  We should arrive at the Bay School by 6pm on Friday.
• One of the philosophical tenets of this trip is for students to live in the moment, and disconnect from the outside world.  Although the ship maintains communication with the mainland, students are not allowed to bring cell phones with them on the trip.