The Tabor Boy Project

Welcome Aboard!

For over 50 years, the schooner Tabor Boy has taken young Tabor Academy students to sea under sail. This remarkable ship has played a significant role in helping Tabor Academy transform adventurous teenagers into confident young adults.

The Tabor Boy Project is a living history project and social network by and for Tabor Boy sailors and supporters. While it will help create and preserve the rich stories that make up the schooner's history, it will also connect shipmates that have been "lost" for years.

If you have EVER sailed aboard Tabor Boy as a student, crew, parent, guest or Sea Ranger, for an hour, day, week, semester or year(s), please tell your story(s), comment on other's stories, post pictures and videos and invite shipmates to be part of this living history / storytelling archive. It's easy, fun and you can't break it!

Hop aboard and let's tell the Tabor Boy story together!

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R.C.Glover III updated their profile
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Tom Leatherbee is now a member of The Tabor Boy Project
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Bob, No kidding, it seems that we have departed from a more regimented society. Not to say that our society should be military like but having worn a uniform at Maine Maritime didn't hurt me. But that brings me back to sail training – there’s a lot…
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Nice picture. A by-gone era, but a tradition that should be revived.
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Dan Zinsmeyer updated their profile
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John Crocker updated their profile photo
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John Crocker updated their profile
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James Hutton updated their profile photo
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Ian O. Malin

Duane Minton 2 Replies

Started by Ian O. Malin. Last reply by James E. Geil Mar. 19, 2009.

John Crocker

Status of Joseph Smart 9 Replies

Started by John Crocker. Last reply by Jim Potdevin Jan 24.

Peter A. Mello

Please tell us about your sail training experiences 5 Replies

Started by Peter A. Mello. Last reply by Peter A. Mello Dec. 15, 2008.

Woody Kennedy

Uncle Woody tell us a story. 9 Replies

Started by Woody Kennedy. Last reply by James Hutton Mar. 23, 2008.

Blaine M. Fortin

Father of Operation Sail Dies 4 Replies

Started by Blaine M. Fortin. Last reply by Matt Twomey '79 Feb. 25, 2008.

A collaborative storytelling / living history project about the tall ship Tabor Boy by Sea-Changes Foundation and Sea-Fever Consulting LLC.

 

Members

  • R.C.Glover III
  • Tom Leatherbee
  • James Hutton
  • Peter A. Mello
  • Douglas Leighton
  • Robert C. Beauregard
  • Dan Zinsmeyer
  • James Mason Franzen
  • Jim Potdevin
  • david Griffin
  • Alex Larsen
  • Madeline Chapin
  • John Crocker
  • Jonathan Pirkey
  • Jason Bland
  • Colin Geil
  • Jared Gorden
  • Anne Lukens
  • Richard J. Lawton
  • Jonathan Bean
  • Brian Gilbane
  • Stephen Holton
  • Carly Nuttall
  • Bro Russell
  • Kip Files
  • Robert Clarkson
  • Robert Cowen, Jr.

Blog Posts

Peter A. Mello

High School Tall Ship Concordia Sinks Off Brazil



You probably have read the news reports of the high school tall ship Concordia capsizing and sinking off the coast of Brazil on Wednesday and all of the students and crew being rescued after 30 hours adrift in lifeboats. I've been… Continue

Posted by Peter A. Mello on February 20, 2010 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

Andrew Major

Dangerous Decision - Personal Account from Hurricane Bob, 1991

Andrew Major 1991 (Re written and edited 1993)

Outside, the wind grew violent and the rain came down as people scurried around. Trees were bending over as their leaves tore from the branches to pelt anyone downwind. I knew it would be my last call home for a while. As I stood in the hallway with no lights, I punched in the numbers on the phone. My brain was numb. I lacked all emotions. My mom was home alone in Panama, while my sister was still in the states, and my dad was traveling in Costa Ri… Continue

Posted by Andrew Major on December 5, 2009 at 3:19pm — 3 Comments

James Hutton

Shipmates from the past and present


It’s often fun to come across old photos of your friends. I often get a kick at old shots of my shipmates from our youthful years aboard the TABOR BOY. I happen to run across this shot taken of now Capt Robert Glover, during his days aboard the BILL OF RIGHTS, which he sailed aboard as deck hand before c… Continue

Posted by James Hutton on October 30, 2009 at 10:00am — 8 Comments

Scott Lauermann

Some Cool Pic's from this Past Summer

Hey all,

Check these pictures out taken by a professional photographer last summer.

http://hb3.smugmug.com/gallery/8897522_ee95C#590171119_NFPSg

Scottie
XO SSV Tabor Boy

Posted by Scott Lauermann on October 26, 2009 at 11:51pm — 2 Comments

Scott Lauermann

S.S.V. Tabor Boy Re-Certified

Hello all,
Earlier today the Tabor Boy and her crew were joined by the USCG for the annual re-certification of the vessel. I am proud to say that schooner passed once again with flying colors. The crew perfomed superbly when faced with several emergencey scenarios inculding a MOB drill and several fire fighting exercises. I am grateful to be able to work under the guidance of Cap and to be able to work with such an enthusiastic and soild crew. You can't say that many schools in the country are b… Continue

Posted by Scott Lauermann on October 14, 2009 at 8:37pm — 2 Comments

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