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Tuesday, Mar 28 10:30 - 14:30

CANCELED: Sail on Aleta with Aspire Stockton Secondary Academy (Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Sail with students from a new (3 year old) charter school Aspire Stockton Secondary School. Students are majority low-income Latino and African-American This is the first of five Tuesday sails on Aleta sailing out of Berkeley.
(Created by Les S)
6 of 7 slots are available.

Sunday, Apr 2 10:00 - 15:00

Certification sail (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Certification of skills for Crew and Second Captain including COB. Bring your lunch! This sail must have at least 5 candidate volunteers signed up to avoid cancellation.
(Created by David M)
0 of 11 slots are available.

Tuesday, Apr 4 10:30 - 14:30

CANCELED: Sail on Aleta with Aspire Stockton Secondary Academy (Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Sail with students from a new (3 year old) charter school Aspire Stockton Secondary School. Students are majority low-income Latino and African-American This is the first of five Tuesday sails on Aleta sailing out of Berkeley.
(Created by Les S)
4 of 7 slots are available.

Thursday, Apr 6 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Bear with Abraham Lincoln HS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail on Golden Bear with Lincoln High School. This sail had previously been scheduled for May 11.
(Created by Les S)
1 of 7 slots is available.

Friday, Apr 7 16:30 - 21:00

CAMP SWEENEY NIGHT SAIL (Benjamin Walters, Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Night sail...a favorite with our students. Double sail with Aleta. Dinner on the dock and then go look at the lights. Bring your overboard strobe/light for your lifevest.
(Created by Lee S)
9 of 19 slots are available.

Saturday, Apr 8 10:30 - 14:30

Double sail on Aleta and Benjamin Walters with Pact (Benjamin Walters, Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Our first sail with Pact; an adoption agency which provides lifelong education, support, and community for adoptees of color and the people who love them.
(Created by Les S)
4 of 14 slots are available.

Tuesday, Apr 11 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Aleta with Aspire Langston Hughes Academy (Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Sail with students from Aspire Langston Hughes Academy Stockton. Students are majority low-income Latino and African-American
(Created by Les S)
4 of 7 slots are available.

Tuesday, Apr 11 18:00 - 20:00

Monthly Board Meeting

Location: 48 Gold Street, 2nd floor, San Francisco, CA 94133
Description: We are ALWAYS done by 8 PM. If you cannot make it in, we have a Zoom conference space you can use to be telepresent.You must register in order to access the meeting via Zoom. A registration button is in the event details on the volunteer.bluewaterfoundation.org site when you are logged in. Use it to register. Registration will generate connection details which are good for subsequent meetings.
(Created by David M)

Thursday, Apr 13 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Bear with Mission HS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail with the Peer Resource students at Mission High School. This replaces the sail for Willie Brown MS.
(Created by Les S)
1 of 7 slots is available.

Thursday, Apr 13 10:30 - 14:30

CANCELED: Sail on Bear with Willie Brown MS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail on Golden Bear with Willie Brown Middle School.
(Created by Les S)
3 of 7 slots are available.

Saturday, Apr 15 10:30 - 14:30

Double sail on Aleta and Benjamin Walters with Pact (Benjamin Walters, Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Our second sail with Pact; an adoption agency which provides lifelong education, support, and community for adoptees of color and the people who love them.
(Created by Les S)
5 of 14 slots are available.

Tuesday, Apr 18 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Bear with MLK MS Marin City (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail with the students from Martin Luther King Middle School in Marin City. They loved the sail last year!
(Created by Les S)
3 of 7 slots are available.

Thursday, Apr 20 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Bear with Independence HS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail on Golden Bear with Independence High School.
(Created by Les S)
2 of 7 slots are available.

Friday, Apr 21 08:30 - 15:15

Camp Sweeney Class Sail (Benjamin Walters)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: This is the live overboard drill in which the students save one of our volunteers. A favorite for the students and a remarkable lesson.
(Created by Lee S)
4 of 9 slots are available.

Friday, Apr 21 08:30 - 15:30

Camp Sweeney Class Sail (Benjamin Walters)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: This is the class in which the students are taught live overboard drill...rescuing one of our volunteers from the water. A favorite.
(Created by Lee S)
5 of 8 slots are available.

Saturday, Apr 22 09:30 - 15:30

HUCKLEBERRY MARIN STAFF SAIL (Benjamin Walters)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Staff get acquainted sail for Huckleberry Marin...the first student sail will be May 20...this one is to show their staff what we can offer. Good chance to meet those who will make this new program work.
(Created by Lee S)
2 of 9 slots are available.

Tuesday, Apr 25 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Aleta with Aspire Stockton Secondary Academy (Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Sail with students from a new (3 year old) charter school Aspire Stockton Secondary School. Students are majority low-income Latino and African-American This is the first of five Tuesday sails on Aleta sailing out of Berkeley.
(Created by Les S)
4 of 7 slots are available.

Wednesday, Apr 26 14:30 - 18:00

Huckleberry SF Sail (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Our first regular sail with the students selected by Huckleberry SF. They come after school and we bring them back by dark. This will be the start of a significant new partnership with the many existing programs of Huckleberry which has taken over many of the prior duties of SF Juvenile Probation.
(Created by Lee S)
5 of 8 slots are available.

Thursday, Apr 27 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Bear with Downtown HS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail on Golden Bear with Downtown HS
(Created by Les S)
3 of 7 slots are available.

Saturday, Apr 29 10:00 - 15:00

Benjamin Walters Certification Sail (Benjamin Walters)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: A full day certification sail for Benjamin Walters. A great and fun way to move up the certification ladder...overboard drill if enough students sign up who need it. Bring your lunch, we will have coffee and tea on board and go rain, shine, storm or calm.
(Created by Lee S)
6 of 12 slots are available.

Thursday, May 4 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Bear with June Jordan HS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail on Golden Bear with June Jordan High School
(Created by Les S)
3 of 7 slots are available.

Friday, May 5 08:30 - 15:00

CAMP SWEENEY CLASS (Benjamin Walters, Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Our last regular class before graduation. Will fly genniker if wind right, double sail if Aleta can get full crew.
(Created by Lee S)
9 of 14 slots are available.

Tuesday, May 9 18:00 - 20:00

Monthly Board Meeting

Location: 48 Gold Street, 2nd floor, San Francisco, CA 94133
Description: We are ALWAYS done by 8 PM. If you cannot make it in, we have a Zoom conference space you can use to be telepresent.You must register in order to access the meeting via Zoom. A registration button is in the event details on the volunteer.bluewaterfoundation.org site when you are logged in. Use it to register. Registration will generate connection details which are good for subsequent meetings.
(Created by David M)

Thursday, May 11 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Bear with Presidio MS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail on Golden Bear with students from Presidio Middle School.
(Created by Les S)
6 of 7 slots are available.

Thursday, May 11 10:30 - 14:30

CANCELED: Sail on Bear with Lincoln HS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail on Golden Bear with Lincoln High School.
(Created by Les S)
7 of 7 slots are available.

Friday, May 12 10:30 - 16:00

GRADUATION DOUBLE SAIL CAMP SWEENEY (Benjamin Walters, Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Our graduation sail and pot luck with Sweeney students. Families invited, certificate handed out, perhaps a judge invited to hand them out. Very moving ceremony and then double sail...
(Created by Lee S)
12 of 15 slots are available.

Saturday, May 13 10:00 - 15:00

Certification sail (Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Certification of skills for Crew and Second Captain including COB. Bring your lunch! This sail must have at least 5 candidate volunteers signed up to avoid cancellation.
(Created by David M)
7 of 11 slots are available.

Thursday, May 18 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Bear with Hoover MS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail on Golden Bear with Hoover Middle School.
(Created by Les S)
7 of 7 slots are available.

Saturday, May 20 09:00 - 15:00

Huckleberry Marin Student Sail (Benjamin Walters)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: Our first Student sail with the kids of Huckleberry Marin...may become regular class once we see how it goes.
(Created by Lee S)
8 of 9 slots are available.

Saturday, May 20 09:30 - 15:30

CANCELED: HUCKLEBERRY MARIN STUDENT SAIL (Aleta)

Location: Berkeley Marina
Description: First sail for the students selected by Huckleberry Marin...perhaps the beginning of a regular class. Aleta is the boat...
(Created by Lee S)
8 of 8 slots are available.

Tuesday, May 23 09:45 - 14:00

Sail on Bear with Silver Springs HS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Another sail with the enthusiastic students coming all the way from Grass Valley.
(Created by Les S)
7 of 7 slots are available.

Thursday, May 25 10:30 - 14:30

Sail on Bear with Francisco MS (Golden Bear)

Location: San Francisco Marina
Description: Sail on Golden Bear with Francisco Middle School.
(Created by Les S)
6 of 7 slots are available.