Please include your regular mailing address. Since 1976, each fall and spring, Southampton College has offered the SEAmester Program. This popular and intensive program provides 22 students with the unique opportunity not only to study the ocean environment, but to live it. Students may earn from 12 to 16 academic credits while undertaking the responsibility of crewing a large gaff-rigged schooner. SEAmester students sail almost 3,000 miles in nine weeks, stopping at carefully selected ports of call to examine unique ecosystems.
Field work includes studies on the finest reefs in the Caribbean to the mud flats of North Carolina.
The schooner Harvey Gamage was built in South Bristol Maine, in 1973, by master shipwright Harvey Gamage for whom she is named. She is a beautiful tribute to the shipbuilder's art, and an exciting example of the types of vessels that carried the commerce of the world in the late 19th century. She is fully inspected and certified by the U.S. Coast Guard to carry passengers and students on international voyages. Though authentic in her construction and sailing rig, Gamage is fitted out with modem navigational and safety equipment. She sails with a professional Captain and crew, appropriately licensed by the U.S. Coast Guard.