'Blue Jackets'

'Middle Class' Yacht Club for Saint John harbour built around current working craft to create self-discipline and personal-evolution opportunities for those interested in the social restoration of Fundy harbour life. Given that family participation will bring young children bring them the joy of sailing and teamwork; and also, for instance, teaching simple knots. This could be the 'baby navy,' or 'BN.'

Special social glue

Benefit from the local dock and harbour workers such as fishermen (some of whom are tribal) and the pilot's union by

situating near them by sharing docks, and possibly
organizing apprenticeships for local youth

Validate the club through comprehension of 'old-school' concepts that create the 'special social glue' of mariner society

idea of 'honor' in seafaring as part of
self-reliance and self-discipline to create
independent moral standing not too much different from
naval concepts of honor

Leverage beneficial ways of doing things common to seafaring and dock area cultures worldwide including historical and natural challenges such as

longshore corruption and
dangers and abuses that sailors experienced ashore and at sea

History: develop material about the

schooner industry and the industries that they helped
a physical presence for square riggers, such as the half-scale Marco Polo
tugs, sailing barges, Saint John river craft
fishing craft
personalities such as Molly Cool that can be revived to give the port historical life

Offshore racing program

Make the docks available to special sailing groups that can provide these kinds of knowledge and experience such as

solo and small crew circumnavigators
foreign training ships
ship and boat owners willing to share their vessels

Find and restore vessels for offshore racing training to give Canada a place in the this growing sport. Economically, a small set of popular class designs of different sizes so as to create an 'even playing field'

Mirage 24
Pearson 28 Triton
Halman 20

Important considerations

Leveraging the existing harbour life would require that members would a) be interested, and b) necessarily have discretion about membership and activity. Evaluation can easily validate each new member's progress making creating highly-qualified new crewmembers for harbour and maritime industries.

The societal culture that is restored in this way needs to remain permanently true to itself (with federal protection) such that it is not vulnerable to external influences that may change its social fabric, such as development efforts, or even corruption.

Also important is that the harbour is under federal mandate, and only with federal help can the harbour transition past its current 'locked-down' globalization mode to a nautical 'social' mode.

Marina development

Physically separate, but obviously connected should be a common connector for yacht owners interested in restoring the native local sea culture.