Ship Schedule
Cramer Schedule
The Corwith Cramer operates in the Atlantic Ocean.
January: She begins the year in Key West, Florida, where she does a short maintenance period. At the end of January, she goes on a short 10-day trip with the Williams/Mystic Program.
February - March: In the beginning of February, she begins a SEA Semester in Key West that ends in the middle of March, also in Key West. This 6-week trip around the Caribbean will include two port stops. In the past, these ports have included, Samana, Roatan, Silver Bank, Bahamas, Cuba, and Jamaica.
March: The next 6-week SEA Semester leaves from Key West and ends in St. Croix in early May. This trip has had port stops in Bermuda, Bahamas, and Bequia.
May: The boat begins its return north. That SEA Semester begins in St. Croix, often visits Bermuda and Nova Scotia, then returns to our home dock in Woods Hole.
June - August: Once she arrives here she stays north for the summer. Summer SEA Semester cruise tracks often go to the Canadian Maritimes; Nova Scotia or Newfoundland. The end of summer finds her in the Gulf of Maine with high school programs. She might be seen in Gloucester, Isles of Shoals, Portsmouth, or at our dock in Woods Hole.
September: September brings another Williams Mystic 10 day program, often heading up to Rockland Maine, where the boat spends a month for maintenance.
October: She comes back to Woods Hole to pick up the Fall I students. This trip brings the boat south for the winter. She has a long first leg to the Caribbean, where she might first stop in Grenada or Barbados before working her way up the island chain to Guadalupe, Isle de Saints, or Dominica to finish the trip in St. Croix.
November - December: The students of the last SEA Semester of the year join the ship in St. Croix just after Thanksgiving. They might visit Jamaica, Bonaire, or the Cayman Islands before finishing in Key West at the end of the year. These are some of the stops that we have visited in the past, but the captains are often trying to visit someplace new, so the port visits change from year to year.
Seamans Schedule
The Robert C. Seamans operates in the Pacific Ocean.
January: The year begins with the vessel in Tahiti. During the month, there are a number of short trips around French Polynesia with friends and colleagues of SEA.
February: The first group of SEA Semester students joins the ship in Tahiti, and after a port stop in the Marquesas, starts to head north to Hawaii.
March: The semester ends in March in Honolulu, where another group of students joins the ship.
April - May: This SEA Semester begins by heading out to Palmyra Island or perhaps Fanning Island then back to Hawaii in May to finish the trip. May might find the boat heading to the mainland.
June - August: In the past few years, the Seamans has had a maintenance period in Seattle in June. The summer SEA Semester might begin here in early July and head north to British Columbia and Alaska before returning back to Seattle. Late summer finds the boat heading down the coast to California, often with high school students onboard.
September: The boat is in San Diego for a month-long maintenance period.
October - November: After the SEA Semester students join in October, the boat heads farther south to Mexico, often stopping in La Paz before finishing the semester in Puerto Vallarta at the end of November.
December - January: During the next SEA Semester, the ship continues to follow the sun south, sailing across the equator to a port stop in the Marquesas before finishing in January in Tahiti.
This schedule changes yearly, based on weather patterns.
