Great Seafarers

     ECRC is proud to offer an Action Pack in cooperation with the SeaDiscover Shipwreck Museum of Ocean City, Maryland. Great Seafarers uses ships on the high seas as the venue for participants to circumnavigate the world while investigating life during the Great Age of Sail. It is very motivating for participants to consider how sailors thrust themselves and their ships into the unknown. The Motivator Maps take participants on a sailing journey with Captain James Cook, into the impact of the slave trade on an African Village, racing on a windjammer to Australia under full sail and onboard the Flying Cloud which sailed from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco in a record 89 days.

     Great Seafarers tries to give participants a strong sense of what it was like to undertake such perilous adventures. Between 1420 and 1620 Europeans learned that anyone given adequate ships, stores, skills, luck and courage could reach anywhere in the world and more importantly, return home. The Age of Exploration is a natural focus for Motivator Maps where participants can relive history, touch history and consider what it was like to chance a shipwreck on oceans filled with hazardous winds and currents, or to be greeted by peoples most unfriendly to the new comers. Take a world voyage and learn what researchers have learned about a time of unparallel action and motivation.

Motivator Maps:

• James Cook
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Sir Francis Drake
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• Christopher Columbus
• World Whalers