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Subject: Outward Bound's LANCE LEE: Silk Dragon Seamanship talk
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:16:13 -0500
From: richard shyduroff <rdshydur@MIT.EDU>

additional posting:
former and future outward bounders around mit and harvard, 
and e-club & seminar retreat rower-sailors, please post 
this where you think appropriate, and certainly personally 
invite anyone you think interested ... thanks! - r

summary: 
LANCE LEE shall lead discussions on his new project both 
in the mit e-club, 6-7pm in 56-114, and in additional
depth in seminar-089, 7-9pm in 66-148 ...

meeting & class topic reminder:
this tuesday 26 november in seminar-089 we are fortunate
to have visiting with us my good friend and neighbor from
here on the windswept maine coast LANCE LEE, founder of 
ATLANTIC CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL, and co-founder of
numerous OUTWARD BOUND PROGRAMS around the world ...

lance's new proposed project SILK DRAGON SEAMANSHIP ARM: 
SILK DRAGON's goal is to pose two very large Junks for 
circumnavigating the earth, exhibiting the 500+ year old 
Ming Dynasty treasures, art, culture, seamanship acumen 
and exloration of the renowned San Bao.  

These vessels will make port visits to aquaint the world 
with its credentials for a new era embracing the West.

Corporate backing will yield a planned profit, carefully 
sculpted and backed - as you know - by recognized corporations
and by national and international figures.

The SILK DRAGON SEAMANSHIP ARM is the non-profit, educational
partner of Silk, intended to give broad experience to many 
mulinational, racial and religious youth. Its essential goal 
is to build concord or community among the participants and 
so nations. 

Two smaller vessels, ca60tons x 80feet-LOA, will be acquired
and/or restored and act as "Motherships" representative of 
the East (Junk) and West (a comparable sized European or
American vessel) and approximately four indigenous small sail
and oars training boats working from the Mothership.  These 
will represent different cultures, fisheries, rigs and 
construction techniques.  Likely types: Indonesian Golokan,
Norwegian Lestabat, Mediterranean Fellucca, and North Sea
Brit Fishing Boat.  

We will initially train eight Project Leaders - from the
national diversity above - for 6-8 months with Western vessel,
boat-building and seamanship disciplines, and an overall 
intention of first COMMUNITY-BUILDING and second "SEEDING" 
other sites or start-up programs.

lance's biosketch, a very brief version: 
BA, Bowdoin College; 3-1/2 years U.S. Marine Corps, last 
rank Captain; six years as Instructor, Chief Instructor 
and Site Developer of three Outward Bound Schools; 
Founder, Director & President of the Apprenticeshop/Atlantic
Challenge Foundation (l972-2002), and Founder of Atlantic 
Challenge International; Co-Founder Apprenticeshop on 
the Neva (Russia, l989; the East River Apprenticeshop 
(with Pete Seeger, in Queens, l998); author Twice Round the 
Loggerhead, sections of two additional books, and ca40 
articles in Naval Institute Proceedings, plus NYT, WoodenBoat,
Sea History, Journal of Experiential Education, Editor "The 
Apprentice" Journal of Maritime Folk Life (ten years, 81-91).
Lecturer: Dartmouth, Cooper Union, Cornell, Mystic Seaport,
International Congress of Maritime Museums, Ministry of 
Maritime, France, Viking Ship Museum (Denmark).

Married, Dorothy M., son Bjorn A, daughter Noelle A, Lee.

Current: (Informal) Partner, Silk Dragon, developing 
the Seamanship Arm. 

Current writing projects include: _The Hahn Legacy: The Work 
and Influence of Dr. Kurt Hahn, l886-l974_.

Silk Dragon will update its www site to include the proposed
Seamanship Arm.  This not my initiative but ours (including
four nation founders: China, France, the U.K. and the USA.
.