Spirit of South Carolina
at the 35th Annual
Georgetown Wooden Boat Festival.
19-20 October 2024
Join our crew and sail from Charleston to Georgetown. Enjoy one of the best Wooden Boatshows on the Eastern Seaboard while living aboard and participating as part of our crew. You'll come aboard the evening before cast-off for a casual social with the crew, choose your berth and learn your way about the ship. Next day we set sail for Georgetown, approximately 12 hours north. You'll ferry from our anchorage to the Boat Show, Saturday and Sunday before sailing home to Charleston Sunday afternoon.
Sign on for one way, or the entire round trip.
Come Sailing with us
(Coming in Late 2024 and 2025)
Do you have a passion for sailing or a love of adventure and the great outdoors? Sailing aboard Spirit of South Carolina might be your opportunity to experience the hands-on challenge of sailing a traditional ship. As guest crew, you will live and work alongside Spirit‘s professional crew and participate in all aspects of life aboard the ship — up to your level of interest and ability. You will stand watch, steer the vessel, help with ship’s maintenance, and more.
Welcome aboard!
We are looking forward to a busy sailing season in late 2024 -2025 featuring several guest crew experiences up and down the East Coast, including appearance at the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show, and Spring a Passage north to New England for Shipyard. As guest crew experiences are scheduled, they are added to the schedule below.
Be advised that all guest crew will be required to read and adhere to Spirit of South Carolina‘s COVID-19 policy.
Spirit of South Carolina typically sails with a crew of 12 men and women, including the captain, ship’s cook, two mates, bosun, engineer, and six deckhands. Spirit of South Carolina boasts 28 berths; 16 in the Forecastle and 12 in the main Saloon, shared by crew and passengers. Crew and Passengers are purposely intermingled to encourage conversation, shared questions, continuous learning, and shipmate camaraderie.
Grab your gear and come aboard Spirit of South Carolina for an overnight sailing adventure! Applications are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. Scroll down to view this year’s guest crew experiences (we add to the list as we confirm Spirits‘s schedule, so check back periodically).
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Considering a Guest Crew Position?
Below are some useful links about our guest crew opportunities aboard Spirit of South Carolina:
What is it like to be guest crew? Check out these resources from folks who came aboard:
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The sail of my dreams on a tall ship (Green Bay Press-Gazette, March 3, 2017)
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Sailing a tall ship across Superior (StarTribune, January 25, 2014)
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Spirit of South Carolina; a Story of Life at Sea ( Video by The Carolina Low Country and the Atlantic World Program)
Cancellation Policy: Guest crew reservations may be canceled up to ten business days or more prior to departure with a full refund. To cancel an existing reservation, please contact Spirit of South Carolina Inc. at 410.539.1151 or Captain@spiritofsc.org. Cancellations made fewer than ten business days prior to a departure will not be refunded. Should the captain or Spirit of South Carolina, Inc. cancel the guest crew experience due to weather or extenuating circumstances, a full refund will be given.
Guest Crew Passages
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If you are interested in sailing on one of the listed passages below, scroll below to the application for any experiences for which there are still spots available. If there isn’t an active link for a particular experience, that experience is not open for applications. I
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Next, scroll further below to the Application Form for Guest Crew Experience. Complete and submit. We will notify you by email within seven business days of receipt of your application if you have been approved for a passage.
Everyone must complete the application forms, regardless of past guest crew status. We will post guest crew passages as they become available.
Passage Description | Embarkation Date | Disembarkation Date | Price |
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Charleston to Georgetown Wooden Boat Show | 18 October 2024 | 19 October 2024 | $250 |
Georgetown to Charleston | 20 October 2025 | 21 October 2024 | $250 |
Charleston to Georgetown Round Trip | 18 October 2024 | 21 October 2024 | $500 |
Charleston to New England Shipyard | Late April 2025 | 1st Week May 2025 | $1200 |
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