page_title: Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
section_title: Sloop Clearwater
hierarchical_section_title: Hudson River Sloop Clearwater / Sloop Clearwater
caption_attribution_description: Usable with attribution and link to: WorldIslandInfo.com Photo of the sloop Clearwater sailing south on the Hudson River, past Manhattan's Grant's Tomb and Riverside Church
context_page_description: The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Beacon, New York that seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands and waterways through advocacy and public education. Founded by folk singer Pete Seeger with his wife Toshi Seeger in 1966, the organization is known for its sailing vessel, the sloop Clearwater, and for its annual music and environmental festival, the Great Hudson River Revival.
context_section_description: Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. owns and operates the sloop Clearwater, the centerpiece of Clearwater's public education programs. Clearwater serves as a movable classroom, laboratory, stage, and forum.
  The Clearwater is a 106-foot (32 m) wooden sailing vessel designed after 18th and 19th century Dutch sailing sloops. With a large gaff rig, a hinged centerboard, and wide shallow hull, these vessels evolved to deal with the challenges of strong tides, shallow waters, and variable winds encountered on the Hudson River.  Designed by Cy Hamlin and built by The Harvey Gamage Shipyard in South Bristol, Maine, Clearwater was launched in 1969.  Built of traditional plank-on-frame wooden construction, the sloop is 76 feet (23 m) in length on deck, 25 feet (7.6 m) in beam and can hold up to 70 tons of cargo. The sloop rig consists of a single mast and topmast which together rise to a height of 108 feet (33 m). A 65-foot (20 m) long main boom and 45-foot (14 m) gaff carry a 3,000-square-foot (280 m²) mainsail. A 28-foot (8.5 m) long bowsprit carries a 900-square-foot (84 m²) jib on the foredeck. In light wind, a 450-square-foot (42 m²) topsail may also be raised.
  In 2004, the sloop Clearwater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for her significance to the environmental movement.  The Clearwater has a smaller sister ship, the Sloop Woody Guthrie, that is used in education about the river.
  In 2012, Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt released the music video and single "God's Counting on Me, God's Counting on You", which they recorded and filmed on the "Clearwater" while sailing on the Hudson in 2010.  The song references the Gulf oil spill of 2010.
caption: Clearwater sailing south on the Hudson River past Manhattan's Grant's Tomb and Riverside Church
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