Be assured: safety is the first and foremost consideration in the design, operation and management of the two traditionally rigged schooners that serve as home and classroom to Sea|mester students, the 112-ft Argo and the 88-ft Ocean Star.
Make no mistake; while Argo and Ocean Star would look right at home among the finest yachts in Newport or Monte Carlo, these are working school ships. If the vessels are moving, it is because the students are trimming the sails, monitoring the ship's systems and charting the course. Shouldering that responsibility, along with the experiential learning opportunity it provides, is the very point of the program.
Length Overall: 112ft
Staff & Crew Compliment: 7 & 26
Vessel Overview:
Completed in 2006, S/Y Argo is a 112-ft two-masted staysail schooner built to comfortably accommodate 26 student shipmates and 7 professional staff on the most challenging of ocean voyages. Certified by the British Maritime and Coastguard Agency as a Category "Zero" vessel, she is allowed unrestricted operation in all of the world's oceans.
Safe, capable and as splendid a sailing yacht as there is traversing the seas; Argo was designed to the most exacting of standards in collaboration with the renowned Newport Rhode Island firm, Langan Design Associates.
Vessel Characteristics
- Designer: Langan Design and Associates
- Builder: Marsun Shipyards
- Length Overall (Sparred): 112 ft
- Length Overall (Unsparred): 101 ft
- Length On Deck: 94 ft
- Beam: 25 ft
- Draft: 10.1 ft
- Displacement: 148 Tons
- Height of Main Mast: 103 ft
- Sail Area: 4700 Sq. ft
- Hull Material: Steel
Principle Equipment
- Main Engine: Caterpillar 3126 (425hp)
- Generators: 2 x Northern Lights 25kw
- Hydraulic System: TRAC American Bow Thruster
- Dive Compressor: Bauer Mariner 8.4 CFM
- Air Conditioning: Marine Airr
- Water Maker: Sea R.O. 1200 gallons per day
- Refrigeration: Seafrost BG 1000
- Anchor handling: 2 x Maxwell VWC 8000
- Tenders: 2 x Avon SR4.0m (50hp and 30hp)
- Communication: Iridium Phone/Data Service, Cellular Phone, SSB, VHF
Length Overall: 88ft
Staff & Crew Compliment: 4 & 16
Vessel Overview:
Ocean Star is a classic two-masted schooner that ably accommodates 16 student crew and four professional staff, Ocean Star was launched in 1991 and extensively refitted in 1999. Maintained to meet the highest standards of safety, the 88-foot schooner, like its sister ship, is inspected and certified by the British Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Nearly 400 student sailors have had the good fortune to live, study and sail the Caribbean Archipelago since Ocean Star first set sail under the Sea|mester flag.
Vessel Characteristics
- Designer: Murray G. Peterson Associates
- Builder: Howdy Bailey Marine Metals
- Length Overall: 88 ft
- Beam: 18.6 ft.
- Draft: 9 ft
- Displacement: 75 Tons
- Height of Main Mast: 95 ft
- Sail Area: 4400 Sq. ft
- Hull Material: Steel
Principle Equipment
- Main Engine: Caterpillar 3208 (210 hp)
- Generator: Westerbeke 15kw
- Dive Compressor: Bauer Mariner 8.4 CFM
- Air Conditioning: Marine Airr
- Water Maker: Sea R.O. 800 gallons per day
- Refrigeration: 2 x Seafrost BG 1000
- Anchor handling: Galley Maid HW-40
- Tenders: 2 x Avon SR4.0m (50hp and 30hp)
- Communication: Iridium Phone/Data Service, Cellular Phone, SSB,VHF
Length Overall: 112ft
Staff & Crew Compliment: 7 & 26
Vessel Overview:
Due to be launched in the summer of 2015, S/Y Vela is destined to be Argo's sister ship. Built from the same basic lines and drawings,Vela will receive a range of modifications and upgrades based upon what we have learned throughout Argo's time at sea. That being said, changes will be minimal and this is a testament to Sea|mester's concept and Bill Langan's original design.
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