The organisation, which has launched two hundred small sailing boats to cross the Atlantic Ocean, fostering interest in the sea and developing cultural links amongst nations, intends to develop the project further following a particularly positive response from a coastal village community in West Cork.
At Barryroe National School, the organisers of the US Educational Passages project met teachers, fishing and marine tourism representatives who had recovered one of their boats after contact had been lost with it and then it was found in and recovered from a cave at Barry’s Cove on the West Cork coastline, refurbished and re-launched, arriving back in USA waters of Nantucket, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a historic American maritime location, from which the story has developed further.
Morristown USA are now linked with Barryroe National School thanks to a small sailing boat that crossed the Atlantic
Those two crossings of the Atlantic showed how maritime interest can be developed amongst young people through local communities, and, for my Podcast below, I was in Barryroe National School when the Educational Passages representatives from the US linked two schools across the Atlantic which had partnered in the project. They also had meetings with other Irish groups interested in the project.
