The schooner Lady Maryland is being dry docked at Chase’s Wharf in Fells Point to replace rotted sections of the stem and to refasten the hull as necessary. The docking and repairs are expected to take around four months and to cost around $180,000. The 25 year old pungy schooner is the flagship of the Living Classrooms Foundation, a Baltimore-Washington based non-profit educational organization that runs shipboard programs for kids in the Chesapeake and along the East Coast and the Great Lakes. Their maritime programs have instructed a a quarter-million students with lessons about the environment and the region’s maritime heritage.  Click here for a video of the dry docking.  Thanks to Ed Weglein for passing the story along.

Living Classrooms schooner to undergo repairs