Welcome to the homepage for Clearwater’s Educational Programs The New Hudson River School Classroom of the Waves Tideline Discovery Program Classroom Programs in Your School 2009 Season Sail Schedule - Reserve Your Place Now! Teacher Resources Taking Passage on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Clearwater Carbon Calculator Songs of the Sloop and River Hudson River Report Cards Education Interns Needed Be a Volunteer Educator on Clearwater! Video: Volunteering for the River New Pre-trip Vocabulary Activities! Environmental Vocabulary Sailor Vocabulary The sloop Clearwater is the centerpiece of Clearwater’s public education programs. Clearwater is a 106-foot wooden sailing sloop designed after 18th and 19th century Dutch sailing sloops. In 1966, folk singer and activist Pete Seeger had the vision that the public would come to care for all of our threatened waterways by learning to care for one boat and one river. He inspired a group of dedicated people who made the dream a reality. Launched in 1969, Clearwater serves as a movable classroom, laboratory, stage, and forum. More than a dozen national and international programs have successfully modeled programs after those pioneered by Clearwater. Each year, Clearwater accommodates nearly 13,000 children and adults for education sails that teach history, biology, and environmental science and navigation along the Hudson River, New York Harbor and Long Island Sound. Thousands more are reached through on-land classroom visits, field programs and public exhibits.