High schools students (from Grades 10-12) spend one semester on land in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in eastern Canada, and one semester at sea on the S.V. Outside of that, their website links to resources of finding financial aid and scholarship on your own.
CLASS AFLOAT FULL
A full scholarship for high schoolers is available. and for the full academic year around $47,000. In general for a non-Canadian student, tuition costs for a semester around $32,000 U.S. However at ports of call, which typically last 3-6 days, students can use the telephone and internet cafes all they want. On board the ship, students are not allowed to have satellite telephone nor satellite internet access.
A student also blogged about the typical day here. More details about your daily schedule while at sea is in the student guide on page 12. Each day contains 4-6 hours of classroom as well.
Got a fear of heights? Well, students are not required to climb the rigging, but if they pass a physical fitness test, they can climb the rigging. This could include navigation, hoisting sails, climbing rigging, maintenance work, or standing watch. The watch group is responsible for operating the ship. What do you do on a ship at sea? Students perform 2 hours of day watch and 2 hours of night watch each day. For high school or college students, you could even collect course credit at the same time. wooden sailboat kind of like Christopher Columbus’ but not) with 36 to 48 of your peers as you travel around the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. Class Afloat basically is a program to study abroad for a semester or two in high school, gap year, or during your first-year at university on a tall ship (a.k.a.
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