Colonial Seaport Foundation
Colonial Seaport Foundation is located in Hampton Virginia and is a non-profit educational organization designed to educate and promote the colonial maritime heritage of the area. Our first vessel, Luna- a 50 ft sloop, is currently under refit and hopefully will be floating in 2010. Visit Colonialseaport.org
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Ahoy friends, First, thank you all for your continued support of our project. While we are three years into construction we are indeed making progress- admittedly slower than we would like. Once floating we hope to host as many pubsters as may wish to visit upon Luna's deck! We are very happy to report that we have outgrown our old website, blog, and membership data base! The website address remains the same, but our blog has changed. Without further ado, I present our new online home! www.colonialseaport.org http://www.colonialseaport.org/blog/?p=156 We are still working the kinks out, so please let us know what we can change to make it easier to navigate.
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Ahoy shipmates! hot off the presses is our Fall 2013 newsletter!
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Ahoy all! After a long time of hunting, searching, and telling our story we now have our long needed chemical locker! This 20 foot container is damned near perfect! no rust, fresh paint, power already installed and shelf brackets running down one side already. We will be adding a rack to hold rolls of fiberglass and make a cutting table to prep the material. Adding an old metal fridge with no motor will hold and isolate the catalysts. When we are done building, we will use it for seasonal downrigging storage. Thank you B. A. E. industries for your donation! WE ARE UNDER WAY!!!!!!!!!
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good morning all. The Colonial Seaport Foundation now has a youtube channel. Below is the link or you can search for colonialseaport as the channel.
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From its inception, the Colonial Seaport Foundation has been a work in progress, a grand experiment in recreating colonial America’s rich maritime history through the construction of Luna our floating historical and environmental classroom. In preparation for Luna’s launch we continue to develop engaging educational programming. Every step along the way, we gain insights into what works and what falls short. We continuously improved our techniques, creating new programs to engage visitors and preserve America’s colonial maritime heritage. Getting it right enables us to have a beneficial and potentially lasting impact upon our visitors. On board Luna construction is co…
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Ahoy all pubsters! The foundation has been accepted as a participant in the pepsi refresh challenge. WE NEED YOUR VOTE to win $50,000.00 in grant money. Vote and spread the word about Luna, have your friends vote! http:/www.refresheverything.com/votefortheboat
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Ahoy folks, July 1st will mark the beginning of our Social Media fundraising effort. It won't cost you a thing other than a minute or so of your time. More information will follow, but if you have anyone with internet access who may be interested in the construction of Luna, please pass our link along to them. www.colonialseaport.org
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ahoy all, attached is the link to the Foundations 2011 Spring newsletter. In particular, take a look at page two. Capt. Bo, thank you for your contribution! If anyone is interested in submitting a historical interest article, please let me know. -dutch HORIZON-SPRING11-web.pdf
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accompanied by a catchy little tune you may have heard around here.
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ahoy pub members, CSF is holding a corporate meet and greet on Wednesday, Dec 8th 530-730 at Half Moone terminal in Norfolk. We encourage anyone in the area who is interested in our project and becoming a member to stop by. The flier is available on our blog: http://colonialseaportfoundation.blogspot.com/ If you are close by and would like to attend, please RSVP on facebook or send me a message via the pub. The tickets cost $50. This includes diner and covers your annual membership dues. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125746300820661 Anyone who wishes to become a member can also sigh up through paypal on our website. www.colonialseaport.org CSF's goal is to…
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well, it happened. We must now refer to Israel Cross as CAPT. CROSS!!! Congrats Mr. Cross. Job well done. He has just passed his Coast Guard 100 ton course! HUZZAH!!!!
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Well it seem that the fair city of Port Jefferson, NY has decided to take the plunge and attempt a Pirate Festival with the HMS Bounty. It is in conjunction with the shooting of a reality TV show being filmed in and around Long Island. The premise is how can so many "horrible" things go wrong for this little Ad Agency. The pirates will come off the Bounty into town and wreak Havoc and Mayhem. If you're interested in being part of this, please contact me Lucretia Lacey My e-mail is lucretia_lacey777@yahoo.com and visit the website for the event www.herestous.tv They are looking for Pirates to come storming off the ship with guns and cannon blazing, so if you're looking…
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Home! Tick count rising and I think Mr. Merriweather the Elder has everyone beat..four so far. But what a GREAT event worth every bug and every drop of sweat...Hats of to Dutch for a super time and the best pirate Olympics ever!!! More to come....but need air conditioning and some sleep! Three cheers Dutch, ye earned everyone of em.
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hey mates, the Blackbeard Festival is two weeks away. Its going to be hot and busy. I have the responsibilities of the long boat Explorer for the weekend and coordinating living history on Sunday. If anyone is interested in crewing on the Explorer over the weekend or putting together a living history program on Sunday please let me know. Also, not publicized, but went over well last year was the Sunday morning dock walk. Hopefully we will be doing it again this year. We will set an agreeable morning hour and walk the rocks and piers pulling trash out of the water from the weekend. Last year we pulled five bags the DAY AFTER the clean the bay day! COUSIN ROBBIE is still …
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ahoy folks, CSF produces a quarterly news letter and is in need of articles. The articles need not be long- 1/2 page typed is normal. We are looking for colonial maritime historical interests, sorry no fiction. We don't have resources to pay for articles, but a heart felt thank you and seeing your article in print would be something. I'll talk with the board and see about offering a membership for a year if we print your article. for an example of what we publish please visit http://www.colonialseaport.org/HORIZON-Spring10b.pdf thanks for looking. -dutch
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hey folks, We now have a blog. please stop by and visit. http://colonialseaportfoundation.blogspot.com/
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START PLANNING NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EARLY JUNE 2010 IN VIRGINIA
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The annual membership meeting of the Colonial Seaport Foundation will be held on March 3, 2010 from7to8 pm at the Hampton History Museum 120 Old Hampton Ln, Hampton, VA 23669 Please join us as we share in the progress of Luna and discuss the coming year plans. Friends and anyone with an interest in the Foundation are welcome. light refreshments will be served.
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http://www.dailypress.com/features/dp-gl_p...0,7289589.story The first time John Glass decked himself out in pirate gear, he thought his stint as a living history interpreter would only last a weekend. All the Hampton man wanted was the chance to add a little authentic character to his seafaring town's first Blackbeard Pirate Festival — which he was helping stage alongside the parade of tall ships that came for OpSail 2000. Then his flirtation with the past would be over. Nearly 10 years later, however, the retired Army officer and environmental engineer has not only failed to hang his cutlass up but also spends much of his spare time perfecting his depiction of an ea…
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ahoy folks, I'm excited to announce that CSF will be involved in the living history portion of the Whydah exhibit at Nauticus in Norfolk beginning the end of November !!! We will be sharing the venue with Ben Cherry aka Blackbeard, The Press Gang, Moody Crewe, and Jack Sparrow ( i don't remember his name, but I've worked with him before and am excited to be seeing him again). Our own Blackbeards Crew and Cindy Warner will be adding to the talent flying the CSF banner as well as a few familiar faces and names to the pub. I have already heard from a couple of folks who are interested but if anyone is in the area and is interested in turning to, please let me know. dutch
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Below is a link to an event we were at last weekend. while we did not get much face time, the explorer did! The video footage has the explorer, a seven log buyboat that is being rebuilt and a clip on old engines. I'm so proud of our little stompin grounds, maybe someday we can have a festival there. http://www.ssentinel.com/index.php/communi...ases_officials/
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