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December 1
#GivingTuesday - show your
support of BaySail by making
a donation or becoming a
member on December 1st or
anytime.

December 31
Today is the last day for
educators to receive $100 off
their spring Science Under
Sail program(s). The date(s)
must be reserved and a 50%
deposit received no later
than December 31st.

February 23
BaySails Annual Meeting
join us for an evening of
reflecting on past successes,
charting our course for the
coming season and showing
our appreciation for our
invaluable volunteers.

BaySail would like to extend a

special thank you to the McLaren
Bay Medical Foundation for
making it possible to equip
Appledore IV with an Automated
External Defibrillator (AED). This
addition allows our annually
trained captain and crew to
immediately respond to a cardiac
emergency aboard the ship.

Welcome Aboard!
Welcome to the November 2015 edition of A View from Aloft. If youre new to
our newsletter or ever want to reread an old issue, visit our page on Scribd. Youll
find every issue of A View from Aloft in one convenient place.
The sailing season may be over but things at BaySail are always moving forward.
Keep an eye out for our annual year-end appeal mailing later this month. Sustained
support from readers like you are the reason BaySail can continue to offer lifechanging programs for youth, teens and adults aboard the schooner Appledore IV.
Coming up in February well host our 3rd Annual Meeting at the DoubleTree Hotel.
We invite everyone to join us as we celebrate our successes from the past season,
look ahead to a fantastic 2016 season and celebrate our invaluable volunteers.
-Scott Ellis, Marketing, Communications & Special Projects

More
Than
A
Donation:
Keeping costs affordable for schools & students
At BaySail, we make it our mission to ensure learners of all ages experience a Great Lake,
appreciate the importance of protecting our shared freshwater resource, and understand the
actions that negatively impact the quality of the water we rely on. Most importantly, we foster
long-lasting stewardship of the water and the environment that surrounds it.

We work hard at BaySail to manage costs and provide educational programs at rates
schools can afford. Even so, many schools must ask students to help cover the costs of even
the most important off-site programs.
Please help us give students a solid appreciation for our precious freshwater resources.

I hope you will consider becoming a member of our fantastic organization. Your taxdeductible membership fee is important to defraying the costs of delivering our educational
programs and keeping the costs affordable for schools and students.
There is a membership level to suit any level of giving with student memberships starting
as low as $25. At any level, your support of BaySail directly contributes to the success of our
valuable programming. Visit our website to join today!

Scott Ellis, Marketing, Communications & Special Projects

BaySail |107 5th St, 2nd Floor | Bay City, MI 48708 | 989.895.5193 |info@baysailbaycity.org

A Gift from the heart

Volunteers are the heart of BaySail. Their gift of time and commitment to work together for the betterment of our organization
is beyond measure. Over the course of the 2015 sailing season, we have been extremely fortunate to have worked with many terrific
volunteers without whom our mission could not be achieved. I would like to recognize our new and returning volunteers Terry Benson,
Diane Carey, Dick Crooks, Cilla Jones, Anne Kukla, Les Smith, Alicia Wallace, and Jacob Wright. BaySail also partnered with two great
organizations this season; the DEQ Environmental Education Internship program and the Dow STEM Ambassador program.
The DEQ offers opportunities for unpaid student interns to work in a variety of capacities throughout the DEQ. Positions are offered
across the State of Michigan in the DEQ district offices, the lab, or the field to match student interests and create personally fulfilling
assignments and projects. Interns work directly on key environmental issues, alongside department professionals and executives, and
often branch out to work on projects involving the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture. This fall, BaySail
acquired two DEQ interns, Allie Shoffner and Michael Carter who provided their expertise in water quality and freshwater ecology to the
benefit of the Science Under Sail program.
Dows STEM mission is to build the workforce of tomorrow by supporting teachers, motivating student achievement, developing
careers, and collaborating with communities to transform STEM education into a driver for innovation, manufacturing, and economic
prosperity. The Dow STEM Ambassador program partners current Dow employees with local schools and nonprofit organizations to
engage students to pursue STEM careers. We were fortunate to have several ambassadors help out on our Science Under Sail program with special thanks to William Foster III, Nancy Tseng, and Megan Zabetian.

While we are packing up the microscopes and putting the 2015 sailing season behind us, we are already very busy preparing for next
spring. Well be introducing new content and new ways of delivering our educational programs, which will require more support from
volunteers. You dont need to be an accomplished sailor. You dont need to be a professional educator. You just need to have a passion
for the Great Lakes and a willingness to share that passion with the students who participate in our programs aboard the Appledore IV.

GalleySweat

We will be scheduling spring volunteer orientation and training sessions very soon. Please consider joining us as we help to mold the
next generation of environmental stewards.
Jodie Romzek, Director of Education

Have you ever wondered what modern

schooner sailors eat aboard the Appledore
IV? The answer is a variety of hard-won
delectable meals and scrumptious snacks.
With a diverse full-time crew of four as well
as an ever-changing string of volunteer Petty
Officers and Senior Petty Officers, each with
sundry tastes and cooking styles, the foods
created in the galley comprise a spectrum of
nautical nom-noms.

But where does the name Galley Sweat

come from? A few years back on a boiling
hot July day in Lake Erie, Jason Paris and
Emily Springsteen joked that they would
make a cooking show called Galley Sweat,
to be filmed aboard the Appledore, with the
aim of documenting the heroic and extreme
strategies employed by the cooks to get their
jobs done. The cooking aboard Appledore
IV is done on a diesel-fueled stove, so it can
be a very hot job. Often the cooks must fight
large waves on a roller-coaster like ride. A

Agriculture and the food we eat have been included in conversations about STEM
(science, technology, engineering and math) with greater frequency. The following article
penned by two of Appledores long-time crew members presents a differentbut very
importantperspective on an unusual component of STEM education: the culinary arts.

tradition was born on that day, and we have cookout (vegetable kebabs prepared on
been sweating in the galley ever since to board, bratwursts, veggie dogs and smores!).
accomplish daily culinary feats.
The trainees loved the desserts made on
Many hands cooked this seasons board, which were mostly of the cookie pile
meals. On occasion, the hands warmed variety (cooking them on a tray takes too
themselves on the stove on cold mornings long on the boat, so they are prepared in a
and they sometimes ran with sweat on a rectangular tray). We also prioritize dessert.
hot afternoon. Favorite breakfasts included Usually this is brownies or a cookie recipe
Big Eggy (a big pile of eggs with cooked kale baked in a square pan like brownies. If the
and mushrooms), homemade granola and boat is heeling one side ends up thicker.
yogurt, Egg Bakie (quiche for busy people),
and Lumberjack Breakfast (French toast
and bacon). There were many popular
lunches made, such as homemade macaroni
and cheese, Middle Eastern Extravaganza
(hummus, tabbouleh, falafel and pita),
Festival of Sandwiches (it is what it sounds
like) and couscous and ratatouille. Finally,
our most well-liked dinners were Mexican
pile (kind of like lasagna, but with frijoles
negros, tortillas and salsa), chicken and
tofu curry (Jasons specialty), and the beach

Food at home is all good n well, but food

formed in the magical domain of Appledore
IVs galley is truly special. The recipes cooked
on board have been perfected over years of
experimentation, and they are genuinely a
great part of many trips. We have had trainees
who are vegetarians, who have allergies, and
one who ate exclusively sandwiches, but the
Appledore Galley Sweat party has powered
through it with grace and flexibility and with
enchanting results.
-Jason Paris and Amy Olenzek

BaySail |107 5th St, 2nd Floor | Bay City, MI 48708 | 989.895.5193 |info@baysailbaycity.org

Calm

before the

Theres something soothing about the tree I see

through my office window. Ive been watching its
leaves turn to yellow and orange for a few weeks now.
Its almost at peak color as I write this and I know
someday soon Ill look out my window and those
brilliant orange leaves will be resting on the ground.
It makes me think about how we seem to rush through
our busy summer sailing season and, when weve
reached our peak, the season is abruptly over.
While a part of us misses the sometimes frantic
activity of the sailing season (the sailors among us most
of all), work at BaySail doesnt stop altogether when
our ship stops sailing. We simply adopt a different
pace in the off season. Our crew is already scraping
and painting the deck of Appledore IV. In a few weeks,
Captain David will lead a team of crew and volunteer
cadets in putting the winter cover on the ship making
it easier and more comfortable to tackle some messy
jobs when the snow is flying. Captain David has a long
list of regular maintenance items hell be addressing
this winter, but hell be paying extra attention to a
thorough review of Appledores systems in preparation
for the 2016 sailing season and next summers TALL
SHIPS CHALLENGE in the Great Lakes.
Director of Education Jodie Romzek is busy updating
educational program materials and developing new
and better ways to deliver them. Next season, teachers
will be able to choose from a number of different
modules to create a custom SCIENCE UNDER SAIL
experience for their students. Jodie is also honing her
skills and keeping up to date on information impacting
the Saginaw Bay and Great Lakes ecology by attending
a number of workshops and conferences over the
late fall and winter months. Shes been working with
SVSU and presenting information on the Michigan
Environmental Education Curriculum as professional
development workshops for teachers and will soon be
certified to present Project Wet and Project Wild

St
orm

workshops as well.
Communications and Special Projects Manager
Scott Ellis is reevaluating and updating all our printed
materials. Communicating with our members and
partners is always a priority so Scott is always busy
managing our website, social media accounts and this
newsletter. Hes already working with charter clients
and motorcoach groups for next year and, as soon as
our sailing schedule is finalized for 2016, Scott will
be sharing information about voyaging opportunities
aboard Appledore IV through our Windward Bound sail
training program. And if that werent enough, Scott is
taking on more responsibility for Tall Ship Celebration
next summer.
And me? I am constantly looking for opportunities
to make sure the talented people I work with have the
resources they need to do their jobs. From managing
our finances to negotiating appearance fees, from
securing sponsors to writing grants, from improving
existing programs to developing new collaborations,
its all about having the resources to fulfill our mission.
At BaySail, we create environmental stewards.
Unlike the trees I see out my window, BaySail
doesnt go dormant during the winter. Because were
not sailing and generating revenue at this time of
the year, your support is even more important to us.
Answering the call to contribute to our Annual Appeal
or becoming a member of our non-profit organization
helps us stay the course. While there is much to be
done during the off season, we do try to appreciate
the calm before the storm. We know next summer will
be about as chaotic as it gets as we send Appledore
IV to other ports around the Great Lakes and we in
turn welcome other ships to Bay City for Tall Ship
Celebration.
Its a lot to do but, with your help, well be ready!
-Shirley Roberts, Executive Director

BaySail |107 5th St, 2nd Floor | Bay City, MI 48708 | 989.895.5193 |info@baysailbaycity.org