About the Omarsea Crew

We are the Trefethens. After 10 years of planning we decided to sell our home and buy a sailboat. In November 2007 we departed Portland Oregon for the Virgin Islands and our 50 foot sloop the OMARSEA. Our three children Ben, Juli and Steve are enjoying the benefits of being homeschooled. Join us on our continuing adventures as we explore the East coast of America on the way to New Zealand.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The New School Cooperative Project

                            The Coconut Milk Run
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Please see the new School project at    www.pacificrally.blogspot.com 

Yesterday the kids and I reviewed a basic set of skills needed to achieve an upper middle class income level here in America. The list included:


  • Soft Skills
  1. Public Speaking
  2. Reading
  3. Writing
  4. The ability to plan and hold meetings
  5. Event Organization
  6. Sales skills
  7. Foreign Language skills
  8. The ability to recognize a need and develop a plan to fulfill that need.
  • Intelligence
  1. Technical - computer or higher tech
  2. Financial
  3. Leadership
  4. Historical
  5. Social & Social Networking
  6. Mathamatical
When asked where he would like to start Stevie chose the Event Planning. We brainstormed for an hour before coming up with the idea to plan a virtual sailing rally fashioned after the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. This one would play host to over 200 boats travelling from Panama to New Zealand on the Coconut Milk Run. 

They will be developing blogs to discuss such wide topics as fleet logistics, weather routing, safety at sea seminars, equipment training, micro event planning including; hula dance lessons and meeting with locals at each island visited. There is virtually no end to the possible options they have. Particularly when you consider this all live prep for a real Milk Run Voyage aboard the Omarsea. 

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