
“There’s about a million students in that group,” he said. Olson said he has been in talks with various schools and science institutions from the nine counties that surround the bay.

The first excursion is expected April 1, said Alan Olson, co-founder of Call of the Sea, a Sausalito educational nonprofit that planned, secured donations and recruited volunteers who gave more than 150,000 hours of their time to build the vessel. The state-of-the-art vessel is set to be inspected by the Coast Guard within two weeks. After more than six years of work on a project that many thought was impossible, the $6.3 million Matthew Turner tall ship is weeks away from starting the mission it was built for – taking youth out on the water.
