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OUTDOORS: Longtime Royal Oak archers instructor started youth program

Chalmers was a veteran of the United States Army, and was also a member of Royal Oak Lodge 464, Utica American Legion Post 351 and Starr Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife, Janet; son, Christopher Horner (Rebecca); seven grandchildren; brothers, Jeffrey Chalmers (Cobi) and Dennis Sharp (Maureen); and sisters, Susan McKinnie and Diane McLellan (Dennis). Memorial tributes can be made to the Royal Oak Archers JOAD Program, 2830 Lakeville Road, Oxford, MI 48370. The campground will be located in a grass field adjacent to the Baypoint Beach parking lot, just a short walk to the beach. A community bonfire will be lit each night, and Nature Center Interpreters will hold programs for the family in the campground Saturday afternoon. Kids can also scale a climbing wall from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday each camping weekend in the summer. The new 2 ½-hour cruise themes for this season are Aliens Among Us – get an up-close encounter with Great Lakes invasive species; Night Watch – take a nighttime look at marine navigation and its reliance on the stars, the skies and lighthouses that have guided mariners for centuries; and Handy Billy – Join Handy Billy, entertainers who love our Great Lakes and its related music, as they sing songs that have much to teach about shipboard life and the Great Lakes themselves. Other 2 ½-hour cruise themes are Shipping Out - Voyage into the world of Great Lakes shipping with former sailor and ancient mariner Patrick Livingston, author of the Library of Michigan award winning Eight Steamboats-Sailing Through the Sixties; Wind, Waves & Weather - The Great Lakes influence our weather, and the weather can have a great influence on the Great Lakes; The Nature of Lake St. Clair - Take an educational tour of Lake St. Clair to discover the rich variety of aquatic life that makes the lake so special; Shipwrecks - See how the latest technology in shipwreck identification is used to discover wrecks as we investigate the remains of a sunken mystery ship in Lake St. Clair; Great Lakes Science for Teachers - This cruise, for teachers only, will focus on the Great Lakes from a science education perspective. This “research cruise” is designed to help share the Great Lakes with K-12 students; Lighthouses of Lake St. Clair - Join a representative from the Save Our South Channel Lights organization to learn the history of the two lighthouses built on Lake St.

Cruise Passengers Welcome on m/v Explorer's Semester At Sea ...

By Kevin Griffin

And now for something totally different. We look at two cruises that are being offered to the public on Semester at Sea’s 24,318-ton world cruiser m/v Explorer, which offers two world cruises a year as well as a number of shorter enrichment voyages on which passengers may book as well as university students. And we look at two expedition ships, the Orion II and Hanseatic, which both left port on Friday under new colours. Finally, Prince Philip turned 90 on Friday and we have a look back at his maritime background, which has included yet another kind of cruising.

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Cruise Passengers Welcome on m/v Explorer’s Semester At Sea

And now for something totally different – cruises that do not conform to the norm and will be of interest to inveterate travellers and fans of small ships. Many people have probably never heard of Semester at Sea, a study program founded in 1963 and now managed by the Institute for Shipboard Education in Charlottesville, Virginia, and sponsored by the University of Virginia. In its history nearly 55,000 college and university students have participated in the program but so have thousands of cruise passengers who go along for the ride.

SAS today owns and operates the m/v Explorer, which might be better known to some cruise passengers as the Royal Olympic Explorer. Built at Hamburg’s famous Blohm & Voss shipyard in 2002, with accommodations for about 800 passengers, the nearly-new ship was taken on in the summer of 2004, and after Royal Olympic Cruises went out of business, she was purchased in 2008. Her sister ship is now the Grand Voyager, working for Spanish-based Iberocruceros.

The Explorer follows a long line of earlier SAS ships that included a Holland America Line German subsidiary, Europe Canada Line’s 11,086-ton Seven Seas, Holland America’s own 15,015-ton Ryndam of 1951 and CY Tung’s 14,136-ton Universe and 22,162-ton Universe Explorer, the latter a former Holland America ship herself. It had also been intended to use Tung’s 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth, acquired from the Cunard Line and renamed Seawise University in 1972, but she burned during her conversion at Hong Kong.

The roots of this type of education at sea program actually date back eighty-five years, with the first ship to be chartered by America’s University Travel Association being Holland America’s 12,527-ton Ryndam of 1901, which was used for a thirty-week University World Cruise in 1926.

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