After months of hard work creating hand-built sailboats, students from The Landing School, in Arundel, Maine, launched their builds onto Sebago Lake’s Jordan Bay in Raymond, Maine. The two 17-foot Town Class sailboats have been under construction for nine months.
“I wouldn’t call it the final exam,” said Landing School instructor Jake Greiner. “I would say this is, really, the reward for all of the hard work that they’ve put in over the course of the year is actually getting to go sail in the boat that they might not have really believed they were going to finish when we started out.”
For many of the students, this was their first time on a sailboat. One of them, Maxwell Keas, a former Coast Guardsman helped paddle one of the boats out into a spot of wind on the lake and was thrilled when the boat started sailing.
“It feels a bit unreal,” Keas said. “It’s one of those things where you realize that you’re gonna get to this point but it just looks so far in the future. And then, all of a sudden, it’s happened.”
Both sloops are for sale for the cost of the materials, around $26,000.
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