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Pegasus Project Completes Three Booster Voyages
![Pegasus Youth Trip](pegasusArchive_2000_files/Dec5thKingStbCabinTwoGirls.jpg)
The Pegasus completed three
after-school voyages on November 29 and 30 and December 5 with Berkeley Boosters from Rosa Parks Elementary School and Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley. While
aboard, the youth visited the bowsprit, acted as lookout, sat on the
"Royal Seat" at the bowsprit, and took the helm. They listened to the
Bay with their eyes closed, and learned about tides, currents, vessels
transiting the Bay, and the Berkeley pier.
Pegasus crew included Captains Paul Kassatkin, Mark Caplin, and Peter
Hayes; and crew Marena Drlik,
Hans
Kristensen, Sandra Marquardt, Jim Gaebe, Kathy Corliss, Khadija
Pierce, Toni Weingarten, Christine
Albertsen, Bill Gunn, Paul Marbury.
October 27,
2000
Hut Foundation Makes Grant to
Pegasus Project
The San
Francisco-based Hut
Foundation has awarded the Pegasus Project a grant
to support taking youth-at-risk and school children onto San Francisco
Bay.
The funds will be used to support both during- and after-school
voyages in the first half of 2001 and overnight voyages during summer
2001.
August 25,
2000
August 11,
2000
Zekos Family Thanks
Pegasus Crew and Volunteers Posted August 11, 2000
Chris Zekos and his mother Marta
Zekos held a barbecue at their home in Richmond on August 6 to thank
crew and volunteers of the Pegasus Project for
their support in funding the first annual Pegasus-Sea Education
Association award. The award enables Chris to attend the summer 2000
Science at Sea program run by the Sea Education Association (SEA) in Woods Hole,
Massachusetts.
Chris presented Pegasus crew with mounted photographs he took
underway aboard the Pegasus, and Captain Bill Proctor responded on
behalf of the crew by presenting Chris with a bearing compass for use on
the SEA tall ship.
July 28, 2000
SF
Chronicle: Pegasus Kids "On Top of World"
Kids participating in the
Nautilus Institute's Pegasus Project feel
"on top of the world," according to a feature story in the San Francisco
Chronicle July 7, 2000.
Chronicle reporter Benjamin Pimentel joined students from Rosa Parks
Elementary School on a sail aboard the Institute's 51-foot wooden
sailing vessel.
The story also covered a similar program aboard another vessel, the
Nehemiah, with Richmond High School students.
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June 23,
2000
Rosa Parks
Fifth Graders Complete Pegasus Voyage
Twenty-two fifth grade students from Rosa Parks Elementary School in Berkeley completed a
Discovery Bay Voyage aboard Pegasus on May 22. At the safety briefing,
one student asked if the Pegasus was haunted! At the debriefing after
the voyage, most students said that their favorite moment was sitting on
the bowsprit flying above the waves. The Pegasus crew was Paul
Kassatkin, Peter Hayes, Jim Gaebe, Tom Jeremiason, Bill Gunn, Rich
Kambak, and Kathy Corliss of the Berkeley Boosters who organized the
trip. A second Rosa Parks fifth grade class completed their voyage on
June 6th.
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April 14,
2000
Schools
Complete Pegasus Curriculum Work
The Alta Vista School in Auburn, California posted photos of their
voyage on Pegasus on March 22 on their own web site titled "Ships Ahoy!
Our Voyage on Pegasus." The class teacher, Melody Thomasson, created
the web site.
Berkeley's Willard School class who voyaged on Pegasus on March 16
have completed classwork on their experience. Students completed
theme-cards, such as shown above. The Pegasus Project offers an on-line
curriculum called Virtual
Voyage.
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April 7,
2000
Jefferson
Fifth Graders Discover San Francisco Bay
Two groups of Jefferson Elementary School
fifth-grade students led by teacher Robert Murray boarded Pegasus on April 4th for a
Discovery Day sail in the East Bay. The wind was light but steady, and
students saw an excellent tidal boundary near the Berkeley Pier, and one
marine mammal during the sail. All students visited the bowsprit and
were safely tethered to the boat, as can be seen in the photo. "Way
cool," said one of the girls as she came back into the cockpit. Crew
included Captain Bill Proctor, Christine
Albertsen, James Fredrikson, Peter Hayes,
and Patty
Donald.
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March 24,
2000
Alta Vista Fifth Grade
Class Braves the Bay
In a strong westerly
breeze, about 25 students, teachers and a few parents braved San
Francisco Bay in bright sunlight on March 22 aboard Pegasus. The
students rotated around the vessel, including the bowsprit. They
listened for natural and human-made sounds, saw current boundaries, and
learned why the Pegasus can't tip over when the wind blows hard and the
hull heels sharply to leeward. The fifth grade class drove from Auburn
east of Sacramento early in the morning to board Pegasus for the day.
One marine mammal--a harbor seal--was sighted. The land group shouted
"Ship Ahoy!" from the Berkeley pier as Pegasus passed by, while the
sailing group yelled back "Land Ho!" Pegasus crew included Jim Gaebe,
Mark Caplin, Bill Proctor, Christine Albertsen, Peter Hayes and
Shorebird Nature Center's Patty Donald.
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March 10,
2000
Jefferson
K5 Class Discovers Bay Aboard Pegasus
Twenty four K5 students from Jefferson School in Berkeley
completed a Discovery Day voyage on the Pegasus on March 7th. The Shorebird Nature Center's Denise Brown conducted at the
land school of the Cal Sailing Club. Students rotated around the vessel and
out onto the bowsprit. They learned about listening at-sea, tidal
currents, and the local history of landfill and the Berkeley pier. Most
wore the cold-weather gloves recently donated by Stearns to keep warm
in the bitter southerly wind. At the end of the voyage, the students
inspected the vessel below decks, including the galley, head,
navstation, engine room, and sleeping quarters. Captain Bill Proctor,
Jim Gaebe, Christine
Albertsen, Tom Jeremiason, Peter
Hayes, and Patty Donald from the Shorebird Nature Center crewed the
voyage.
March 3,
2000
Teachers, Volunteers
Complete Training for School Discovery Days Aboard
Pegasus
Teachers, volunteers, and Pegasus crew completed a teacher
training on February 26th for the forthcoming Spring sailing program of
the Pegasus Project.
The training was conducted by Patty Donald and Denise Brown, staff of
the Shorebird Nature Center one of the partners of the
Pegasus Project. The training included a tour presented by Peter Hayes,
Co-Director of Nautilus Institute, of the Virtual Voyage, the on-line
curriculum of the Pegasus project, and a voyage on Pegasus in a squally
southerly wind driving in a big winter storm. A training on the land
school for students that is part of the Shorebird's curriculum was also
held at the Cal Sailing Club. The sails with school students commence
on March 7 and run through early June (see Pegasus schedule).
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Nautilus Institute office framed by a rainbow, March 2,
2000
February
18, 2000
Pegasus Crew Completes
First Aid and CPR Training
On January 22 and February 5,
2000, about twenty volunteers from the Pegasus Project, the Shorebird Nature Center, and the Berkeley Boosters completed basic CPR and First Aid
training under the direction of a Red Cross trainer, and Hypothermia
Treatment training under the tutelage of Pegasus safety coordinator and
paramedic Mark Caplin. The
training was held at the Shorebird Nature Center in Berkeley and was
designed to increase the safety level of youth sails on the Pegasus. The
photo shows the group working on training dummies.
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January 28,
2000
KTVU Features Pegasus
Project
KTVU, the
Bay Area Fox-TV affiliate (channel 2) broadcast a news documentary on
the Pegasus
Project on January 22. The program featured interviews with teenage
crew from the Berkeley Boosters, Pegasus crew, and Nautilus Co-Director
Peter Hayes. The documentary was produced by students in the Broadcast
and Electronic Communication Arts Department at San Francisco State
University, directed by Jennifer Proulx.
View
Report (requires RealPlayer
or RealJukebox)
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Program ...
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