
* Create an interactive web site to serve as a repository for these skills, activities and rankings that will be accessible and attractive to the youth-sailors, their parents or guardians, and the schools or other programs that wish to take part.Ĭonsistent with the original mission of Virtual Voyages, Inc., Sea legs is committed to making the maritime experience safe, enjoyable, and educational. * Create a ranking system, based on these skills, by which a young sailor can progress and gain status as mariner. * Develop materials to present these skills, give students activities that will lead to mastery, and determine that a given student has mastered a given skill. * Organize a sequential progression of maritime skills to challenge young sailors from introductory to advanced levels of participation. The aspects of this initiative are outlined as follows: Sea-legs is a new initiative developed by Tom Lacey and Dick Lathrop in an effort to build continuity for youth who take part in the sailing experiences offered by Virtual Voyages

So Pettersen, now 29, of Colchester, whipped up a website and asked for ideas. Information available on the Internet was sparse. "Early last year, Erik Pettersen found himself wondering how a personal computer might be used to record TV programs.
