On Tuesday, November 17, Spirit of South Carolina takes thirty 7th graders from Charleston Collegiate School out into Charleston Harbor for a Harbor of Revolution sail, and we need volunteers aboard to help make it a day these students remember.

These students are in the middle of a unit on the American Revolution, with a class project built around the Revolution in Charleston. They chose this program because it lets them stand on the deck of a working schooner in the same waters where the Royal Navy attacked Fort Sullivan in June of 1776. Harbor of Revolution puts students in the roles of the officers, navigators, and deckhands who sailed those ships, and asks them to make real decisions about how they would carry out the Royal Navy’s mission. They will look at the harbor the way a British captain did, work through the problems he faced with charts, wind,…