S.A.L.T.S. Sail And Life Training Society

Each year, 1700 young people (ages 13-25) learn to sail a tall ship with SALTS. The Society offers transformational experiences aboard the schooners Pacific Swift and Pacific Grace. School or youth groups participate in five-day voyages to the Gulf Islands each spring and fall. Individual young people join in ten-day summer voyages to extraordinary places such as Desolation Sound, the Great Bear Rainforest, Haida Gwaii, and the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Though most participants pay fees, all trips are subsidized by donations—especially the donation of boats of all kinds, which are then sold through the SALTS shipyard. Each year over $100K in bursaries are available. A couple of Day Sails each year are open to all ages.