This day is for crew, volunteers, and educators who want to lead the stations used during Spirit of South Carolina’s field trips and historic interpretation programs. We work through each station the way a student group experiences it, and then we go back through it from the instructor’s side: what to say, what to demonstrate, which questions to ask, and how to keep a group engaged and safe on a working deck.

A typical program day aboard Spirit runs four stations, with groups rotating among them on a set schedule. The time at each station depends on the number of guests and how long they are aboard, so a station might run fifteen minutes on a short dockside visit and considerably longer on a half-day sail. Part of this training is learning to fit the same core lesson into different time blocks without losing its substance, and to hand a…