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!

Latest Activity

Mitch krinsky updated their profile

Nov 7

J Hunt Herrigel Jr and dino avgerinos are now friends

Nov 6

James Hutton left a comment for Stella Kwale

"Welcome aboard Stella! Please post any pictures that you may have from your time aboard as an instructor on the Caribbean cruise. Thanks for joining and again - Welcome! Jamie Hutton '79"

Nov 6

casey charkowick and Capt Eric T Wiberg are now friends

Oct 10

Charles H Jacobus replied to Charles H Jacobus's discussion 1960 Newport to Bermuda race

"Bro: Great to hear from you. As you say, time has passed enough that things are a little fuzzy. I remember it was a relatively rough trip and that we were the first to get to Bermuda (but didn't win due to handicap) and that a…"

Sep 30

Bro Russell replied to Charles H Jacobus's discussion 1960 Newport to Bermuda race

"Yes, I was, that was when Nat Gladding was abord Diogenes (sp?) and had his nose cracked by a runaway winch. He had to be air lifted by the CG. Alfie Fuller was aboard TB, He got seriously drunk in Bedrmuda and we literally turned put…"

Sep 29

James Hutton left a comment for Bruce Lines

"Bruce, Welcome aboard and thanks for joining! This has been a fun site for reliving the adventures, trials, and tributes aboard the schooner, through all member's posts. It is particularly opportune with her 100 birthday rapidly…"

Sep 7

Bruce Lines is now a member of The Tabor Boy Project

Sep 6

Welcome Them!

Holly Francis left a comment for J Scott Duncan

"Thank you for the congratulations! I am extremely excited for the schooner program to start up again after the summer, especially since this is both a Caribbean studies year and the schooner's hundredth anniversary. I think it will go by…"

Sep 1

J Scott Duncan commented on James Hutton's blog post First Tabor Boy Female XO!

"Holly, Congratulations and enjoy your upcoming year on the Tabor Boy! Serve her and her crew well. This will be an experience you will never forget."

Jul 23

Jonathan Lincoln left a comment for Will Cox

"Hi Will, Stopped in at Miles Market today to see if you were around! Unfortunately you are off island. Had dinner at Harry's Restaurant, very nice. WOW the place looks different from when we sailed down in 1983...... Take…"

Jul 22

Guy Roger Clements II and Peter A. Mello are now friends

Jul 8

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Started by Charles Barns (Barney) Davis Jun 12.

1960 Newport to Bermuda race 6 Replies

Started by Charles H Jacobus. Last reply by Charles H Jacobus Sep 30.

Duane Minton 2 Replies

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

Status of Joseph Smart 9 Replies

Started by John Crocker. Last reply by Jim Potdevin Jan 23, 2010.

Please tell us about your sail training experiences 5 Replies

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

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

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First Tabor Boy Female XO!

June 6^th, in an email from Bob Thompson, Director of Capital Giving:

“It was announced this morning in our last Chapel that Holly Francis ’14 of Marion, MA will be next year’s Executive Officer.

As the first female XO, Holly is an extremely competent individual who will lead the schooner in…

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Posted by James Hutton on June 8, 2013 at 7:04am — 2 Comments

Nova Scotia

The schooner is headed to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in June. We will be stopping in Portland, ME for a reception on the 16th before heading back to Marion for the Alumni cruises. Definitely stop by and see her in Maine!

Holly Francis

Executive Officer

SSV Tabor Boy

**Plans changed due to a nasty front, and we ended up going to Maine. Still an awesome trip -- maybe next year for NS.

Posted by Holly Francis on June 3, 2013 at 10:30am

looking for photo

Glad to have found the forum.

Perhaps you can help me. I'm interested in obtaining a copy of a photograph taken of the Tabor Boy in the Fall of 1966 before the vessel left for the Thanksgiving cruise to South Carolina for Winter lay up. I think it's the finest picture of her that I've seen so far and am sure others would agree. The picture was used for the embossed outside cover of the 1967 Tabor Year Book depicting her on a reach, heeled over to the…

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Posted by dino avgerinos on January 7, 2013 at 4:38pm

Sister Ship "No. 6"

“No. 6” was built of steel by the shipyard Piet Smit Jr. in Rotterdam, yard number: 299. Her construction was contracted at the 5th of September 1917, her keel laid in the same year.

She was launched on the 23rd of September 1920 and put into service on the 1st of March 1921 as “Nederlandse Loodsschoener”, a…

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Posted by James Hutton on September 1, 2012 at 6:42pm

Tabor Boy Sister Ship No. 6 Texel

Tabor Boy ’73-’74 XO Jon Barrett manages multiple mega-yachts around the world and found pictures of one of the TABOR BOY’s sister ships while working with a yacht yard. Here is an article of the Sail Yacht No. 6 Texel