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Team coverage of Tall Ships Tacoma 2008.
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Posted by Scott Fontaine @ 03:14:21 pm
Eric Franklin had never been aboard a sailboat when he signed up for the Youth on Board program. He’ll spend four days as a crew member on a Tall Ship sailing from Victoria, B.C., to Tacoma.
“To be honest, I’m not exactly sure what to expect,” the Mount Tahoma High School freshman said. “It looks like a lot of hard work. But I think it’ll be exciting.”
He experienced a little taste of what lies ahead Saturday morning.
Franklin and the 47 other participants in the program sailed around Puget Sound aboard the Odyssey, an 88½-foot yawl. The crew, most of whom are members of the Sea Scouts, led the Youth on Board participants in the tasks required to raise the sails and late gave tours of what lay below deck.
