Spirit of South Carolina Volunteers

This blog supports the volunteers of the Spirit of South Carolina -- a Tall Ship built in Charleston, SC, by Volunteers, guided by a core of skilled architects and shipwrights. This blog will provide up-to-date information about the Spirit, upcoming events, and hopefully some great volunteer stories, pictures and a calendar of events. All volunteers, please feel free to post to the blog! Welcome!

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Two Volunteers-Two Significant Accomplishments.

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 Today, the 19th was another steamer on the water, according to Walter Barton and Tony Marchesani; temperature in the mid 90's with humi...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

While the Bos'n is away... Well, things keep going just fine

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  Last Saturday's Volunteer Day on the 12th was typical July Summer,, Hot, humid and breezeless, the kind of day in which to get things ...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Volunteers July 4 Annual Muster and Society Social Draws a Crowd.

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  Every year since the Volunteer program was resurrected in 2019,  Volunteers gathered on deck, the evening of July 4, along with family mem...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Summer Volunteer Daze; Stuff happens-We fix it. Short Crews still making a difference.

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 Ahh, summer vacation! Everywhere, everyone shifts routines to include just getting away, or just kicking back, and sorta, in a sense, virtu...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

The New Possible? New Purpose for Spirit of South Carolina in Charleston's Maritime Heritage

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 It started as just another chance to go Sailing Today I was editing some old video footage from 18 years ago. Me and four other fellas, all...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Schooners and Maritime Literature

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  Thanks to Ken Fonville who stepped aboard Saturday afternoon the 13th,  to pump the Forecastle bilge after no one else had signed up. Brya...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Steamy Saturday and another check'-offed the Maintenance Punch List.

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 This Saturday, 7 June, was sunny, hot, humid, breezeless,, what else can I say describe the situation four of us volunteers faced as we mus...

We Happy Few This Weekend.. and it Worked.

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 [This entry published a week late,, have mercy on the editor] This past Saturday the 31st of May disrupted the normal rhythm of Volunteer e...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Dismasting of the Mexican Sail Training Barque Cuauhtemoc

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  Here's the latest link produced on YouTube by Sal Mercogliano- a maritime historian at Campbell University and former Merchant Mariner...

Publicity.. You take it where you can get it.

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With no budget, no one on Spirit of South Carolina's team performing in a role as Marketing-publicist-Business Developer-"mouthpiec...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

New Volunteers on the way to filling in gaps left by some of our stalwarts..

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We didn't get chance to bid Fair Winds to Nick Swarts, who recently signed on to the Denis Sullivan's crew for the passage to Boston...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Practical Navigator USCG Approved Online Learning Now Available to Spirit of South Carolina Volunteers

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Volunteering aboard Spirit of South Carolina is part service and part education. You can't spend even one day without learning something...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Spirit of South Carolina Hosts Charleston Collegiate 8th Graders Aboard

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I n spite of our Schooner's apparent Limbo status, these past few months, Spirit of South Carolina has still found ways to execute her m...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

New Volunteer -T-Shirts are Here.

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  They are here, and will be ready to issue possibly as early as April 25.. Look for the email. Due to the generous Grant to Spirit of Sout...

Small Volunteer Team makes big gains. First Attempt at the Bloom Knot Challenge.

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 Spring  Break? Race Week? Something was competing with our Volunteer Day.  Again this week, just four of us mustered Saturday morning. with...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Five Volunteers join Denis Sullivan Crew to Sail her to Savannah

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SSV Denis Sullivan in Charleston Harbor last year.  When the Sailing School Vessel,, Schooner Denis Sullivan visits Charleston twice a year,...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Spirit's RIB (Rescue Boat/Dinghy/Small Boat/Tender-we call her all those things) gets a Patch.

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 On Saturday, the 12th, only three volunteers mustered on deck, but it was enough to take on the one salient project needing to be done, soo...
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