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Save the Dates for an Adventuress Weekend!

On September 15 & 16, 2023 our growing Sound Experience community will gather to show their love for Adventuress and her youth education programs.

The two-day event involves an exciting reboot of our popular annual fundraising gala, Party for Adventuress and our 4th annual on-the-water race, The Adventuress Cup an inclusive in-person and virtual peer-to peer style fundraiser.

The 11th Annual Gala
We are delighted to host the 11th Annual Gala on Friday, September 15th to benefit life-changing youth development programs aboard Adventuress.
Tickets for an evening of fun and fundraising are coming soon!

The 4th Annual Adventuress Cup
Then on Saturday, September 16th a large fleet of sailboats, powerboats and virtual teams will compete for The Adventuress Cup - A Race for the Salish Sea. This public, values-driven event engages people who care about our marine environment and the future we are leaving the next generation.
Would you like to race your own boat, support a team, or form your own virtual team?
For more information on the Gala just follow this link!
 
 
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The Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival - September 8th - 10th, 2023

Adventuress is sailing on all three days of the festival and is also going to be open for a deck tour on the Sunday morning of the festival! To look at the schedule or sign up for one of the festival sails Click Here
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Come for a sail on Adventuress this fall!

Sound Experience invites you to come sailing aboard Adventuress this fall.

A Sound Experience Membership allows you and your family to sail on Adventuress one time for free.

Not a member yet? Please go to our members page to find out more about the benefits of a Sound Experience Membership.

Don't want to become a Sound Experience member, but still want to go on a sail?
Just call Susan at 360-379-0438 x1 for more information or to sign up for a sail.
Or just click on this link.
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Now Scheduling Programs for 2023!

Schedule your 2023 program today!

Both in-person and virtual options are available to help fit your needs. Programs are available to schools, homeschool groups, learning pods, youth groups and more.

To learn more click the link below or contact Amy at amy@soundexp.org or call 360-379-0438 x 2

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Join our 2023 Crew!

Sound Experience aboard the schooner Adventuress is now hiring for our 2023 - 2024 sailing season! The crew positions aboard Adventuress are educational, challenging, fun, out in the elements and are very rewarding. We are planning for a single sailing season for 2023, from March 1st to October 31st. With the possibility of a few 1-2 month crew positions. Click the link below to apply and learn more!
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It's Not a Time to be Silent - A message from Sound Experience

Recent events have shown that the pain and suffering of our Black family, friends, neighbors and co-workers is not only unacceptable, it is unconscionable. America has to do better. All of us have to do better. It is long past time for change.

As a nonprofit education organization, Sound Experience is committed to equity and racial justice. Our policies reflect this commitment of inclusion; our practices include restorative training and programming. We recognize, though, that we are not doing enough.

In the coming weeks and months, we commit to deepening our work with community partners to address the continuing inequities in environmental education and maritime workforce development. For decades, both these spaces have lacked diversity and inclusion of Black and Brown people. This needs to change. Change happens with intention, planning and resources. We can do better.

Aboard Adventuress, we are ALL shipmates. This means that all of us – aboard the ship and throughout the Puget Sound region communities we serve – are shipmates. We care for each other physically and emotionally. We commit to fostering safe spaces for young people to grow and to learn. We steward the environment which sustains us all – all beings, all humans regardless of skin color.

We stand together, for our shipmates, until justice is achieved – and until all human beings can live without fear and can thrive in an equitable America.
“Kids learn through experience. Some of the most vivid and meaningful learning happens outside of the classroom… There aren’t many places on Earth that have a resource as powerful as Adventuress. I am truly grateful that my students can have this opportunity.”

Ron W., 5th grade teacher at Discovery Elementary

“It’s a very unique opportunity for young people to get away from an urban environment and really live with a group of people working on the water. Partly it has to do with the historic nature of the ship and partly it has to do with a deep love for Puget Sound. Who wouldn’t want that for their kids?”

Marianne W., mother of a participant on Girls at the Helm