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A Schooner’s Next Chapter

or decades, Capt. Bob Douglas and The Black Dog Tall Ships have welcomed fourth- and fifth-grade students from Martha’s Vineyard’s elementary schools aboard the schooners and for week-long, immersive sailing voyages. Since the 1990s, more than 5,000 children have gone out to sea, rising early for deck swabbing, galley duty and

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