Muskegon return trip Crew

Captain Schneider

Captain Goacher

Mary Stephens

Jim Milan

Jan Milan

Tim Mattson

Katie Koontz

Ben Tribby

Ben Cohen

Karen Moore

Chris Hess

Diane Schlanser

Eric Standen

Al Kempf

Friends Good Will is in Muskegon

The Friends Good Will is in Muskegon for the week.  We have taken out 100 third graders on the first day and we have about 300 more to go.  The weather is beautiful and lake Muskegon calm waters makes for good sailing.  If you would like to crew for any of these sails we have a car leaving from South Haven each morning and returning in the early evening.  Contact me on my cell for a crew position. 231-590-3641.

Jim Schneider

Muskegon departure, 0400 Monday morning

We will be leaving for Muskegon 0400 tomorrow morning.

Sunday Night

The weather looks good for the sail north on Sunday night. SSW winds at 9-12 Knots, waves less that 2 feet and a chance of thunder storms. We have 9 crew for this leg of the voyage and there is room for more, the return trip is full. The Holland trip in the first week of August has room on both legs.

Port Washington, we have more signed up for this voyage than can fit aboard so we will be reviewing our records and sending confirmations to the crew have the most volunteers hours, and the necessary ratings(Senior Deckhand, Masters license, cook). We will schedule those whom have signed up for both legs to just one before turning qualified crew members away so that as many as possible get an opportunity to crew on a voyage each year.

Jim Schneider

Car pooling

If you will be driving to Muskegon next week for our port visit please contact me so we can arrange carpooling.  It is @132 miles round trip.  Amy will be traveling Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from South Haven in the Morning and back in the evening.  Some of the crew on the northbound leg need to get back to South Haven on Monday evening.

Muskegon sail schedule

May

25th- midnight, we will sail for Muskegon.

26th- Arrive in Muskegon.

27th- School groups arrive one hour prior to sail for dockside portion of Ed sail.

We sail at 10, 12, 2 and 4 for one hour then 8:30 for a two hour sunset sail. Dock side tours from 5-8pm.

28th- Same as above

29th- 10, 12 and 2, 8:30, Dockside tours from 3-8pm.

30th- same as above

31st- 11:15(Pirate), 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 8:30, set sail for South Haven after evening sail.

1st Arrive in South Haven before dark.

Food will be provided.

Carpooling is possible, Amy will be driving from South Haven on t, w, thursday. North in the morning south after the last ed sail.

You may sleep on board. If we are over booked you may need to stay ashore for a sail if not crewing on that one. The ymca facilities are available for crew members.

We are still working on the possibility of a hotel room or two.

Email me with any questions and which sails you would like to be on. We will need both sailing crew and docents.

Captain Jim Schneider

Michigan Maritime Museum

260 Dyckman Ave

South Haven, Mi, 49090

269-637-8078

captain@michiganmaritimemuseum.org

Mays Sailing Schedule

We are in need of additional crew members on the 19th 20th and 23rd for the Educational sails.  If you are interested in working with the kids there is room for one at the gunnery station and one on the quarter deck to assist with the students as they take turns steering.

The sailing schedule so far.  If you would like to sign up for one of these sails email me and I will reply with an updated crew list for that day.  At this time the names listed below are the crew for these sails.  It is early in the season and our scheduling will be done by email or signing up in the office until the web site is fully functional.

May

14th- 3pm charter
SD Stephens, Tribby, Koontz

6pm training sail
SD Stephens, Koontz

16th- 3pm charter
SD Stephens, Tribby, Koontz

6pm training sail
SD Stephens, Tribby, Koontz, Flynn, Schlanser

19th- 10am school sail
Koontz, Tribby


20th- 9:45am school sail
Koontz, Tribby, Schlanser


1200pm school sail
Koontz, Tribby, Schlanser


22rd- 1030am school sail
Koontz, Tribby, Schlanser

23rd- 

11am school sail

Koontz, Tribby

8:30pm  first public sail of the season
SD Stephens, Koontz, Heavin, Hess


24th- 1:15,  public sails
SD Stephens, Koontz, Tribby, Nager, Hess, 

3:15pm

 Nager, SD Stephens, Tribby, Koontz, Hess, 

8:30pm

Nager, Heavin, SD Stephens, Tribby, Koontz, Hess

25th- 1:15,

SD Stephens, Tribby, Koontz, Standen, Refior, Refior

 3:15,

SD Stephens, Tribby, Koontz, Hess , Flynn, Standen, Refior, Refior

8:30pm, 

SD Stephens, Tribby, Koontz, Hess , Flynn, Standen

Midnight departure for Muskegon, If weather looks good we will wait until morning.  We will keep you posted.




Captain Jim Schneider

Michigan Maritime Museum
260 Dyckman Ave
South Haven, Mi, 49090
269-637-8078

captain@michiganmaritimemuseum.org

This weekends training sail

If you have been part of the flurry of emails regarding this weekends training sail I apologize for the repeated schedule changes.  We were trying to accommodate a school group and they have now scheduled four sails in June.  We will be sailing at 6pm Friday the 16th.  there is also a CPR refresher on Saturday the 17th at 10am.  

If the weather cooperates for laying down the gun track we will be mounting the ships gun on Saturday after the CPR class.

Jim Schneider

CPR class this Saturday

There is a Cpr Class is on May 17th at 10 am.

Muskegon

We have 6 crew and cook signed up for the Northbound leg of the Muskegon trip.  We will depart @12am on the 26th and the sail will take 10-20 hours.  

Educational sails start at 9am on the 27th and we will have 4 one hour sails with 3rd graders and 1 evening sail on muskegon lake.  YMCA facilities are available for crew staying onboard and food will be provided.

The return leg has 13 signed on and room for one more.

Jim Schneider

Boy Scout Overnight

Our first Boy Scout overnight went well.  The scouts were kept busy with activities at the museum before retiring to the Ship.  At 9am we set sail as we headed out the channel.  Scouts were given a chance to handle all the sails and steer through our maneuvers.  After a MOB drill we headed back in and the scouts spent the afternoon sanding and painting all of the benches and railings at the Museum.

Jim Schneider

P.S. I was trying to take a picture and this is what happened.  So heres a little video clip of us setting the sails in the channel.

Maintenance committee meeting minutes

Maintenance%20Committee%20Meeting%20Minutes%204.26.08-1.doc

Saturday, May 10th

This Saturday we will be sailing at 9am with a Boy Scout group.  Qualified crewmembers interested in sailing can contact me by email.  

At 10 am our first Basic Seamanship 1 for the season starts

At 1pm we set sail on a spring refresher sail for returning crew.  (It's Full)

Jim Schneider

May 3rd's training sail

We canceled the sail after leaving the dock when current and wind conditions made it unsafe to turn around in the channel. We did double reef the main and walk through the M.O.B. drill dockside. Those needing to reschedule can sign up for the 14th or 16th 6pm sails. If these dates don't work we will add a sail during the day. The sail on the 10th is full at this time.

Jim Schneider

SIgning up to sail as crew

The web site calender is accurate and updated regularly. You may sign up for sails by emailing me the dates and times you are available and I will reply with a confirmation.

Jim Schneider

In answer to the comment posted below, we don't have the crew sign up part of the calender working at this time. To sign up you can look at the sail times and dates on the calender then email me with the date and time you would like to sail. The +1 or +2 means there is more scheduled than fit in the box and you click on it to see it.