Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.

The Hudson River Clearwater Sloop is a shipboard education program for children and their teachers, sailing out of ports from Albany to New York City and Long Island Sound. Clearwater staff received training in the use of aerial photographs and the submerged aquatic vegetation project in order to develop a learning station for use on board the Sloop. This learning station will introduce over 12,000 participants to submerged aquatic vegetation, aerial photography and Clearwater. During the vegetative season, students will be able to make first hand observations of SAV from a number of docking sites.

Clearwater's environmental educators have utilized the Hudson River's diversity as a theme for inter-disciplinary study since 1969 when the famous Sloop was launched. This beautiful 106' wooden replica of an 18th century trade ship, widely acknowledged as the flagship of the environmental movement in the US, is a floating classroom on which over a third of a million people have sailed.