The Tall Ship St. Lawrence II is withdrawing from Sail 4th 250 NYC

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The Board of Directors of TSEC - Brigantine votes to withdraw from Sail 4th 250 in New York City, and cancel all other US visits for the 2026 operational season.

It is with heavy hearts that TSEC - Brigantine has made the difficult decision to withdraw from the Sail 4th 250 NYC event, and to cancel all US operations for the 2026 season.

As a youth focused personal development and outdoor adventure sail training organization, our primary obligation is to the physical, emotional, and legal safety of the young people entrusted to us. The current and evolving conditions in parts of the US present heightened uncertainty and elevated, unpredictable risks that are beyond our control, and for which we cannot safeguard effectively.

Many of our volunteers and youth crew have voiced reluctance to enter the USA. As a volunteer run, peer led sail training organization, we must respect the limitations and safety of our volunteer group, and our actions must reflect actively listening to and respecting their concerns.

The friendship between Canadians and Americans has been forged through centuries of cooperation, shared struggles, and mutual victories. We viewed Sail 4th as an opportunity to draw attention to the strength and tenacity of the bonds that unite us, in spite of those who seek to sow division in shallow soil.

We were proud to be invited to take part in Sail 4th NYC - A global celebration for the 250th anniversary of the United States, and a coming together of people from around the globe to celebrate our connection and shared love of the sea and sail. These events celebrate the ideals and values that bind all of humanity, bringing together people from distant shores in celebration of our humanity, kinship, and resilience.

Unfortunately the risks and barriers are simply too great to overcome and we have used up all the sea room we had to make this decision. It is a very sad decision for us. The value of bringing the world together in mutual celebration of our shared love is so much more powerful than division and the hate that fuels it.

We’re looking forward to returning to the USA and New York City in the coming years!

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Is Canada (of all places) merely the first?
Will this example be followed for other countries’ participation in other international events at US venues - especially those countries already on “visa shitlists”?

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What, specifically? Spell it out.

I’m reading between the lines and I read TDS mania.

Sail training events are always exemplars of international friendship and camaraderie. I’ve commanded a sail training ship competing in the tall ships events on the US east coast in 1992 including New York on the 4th of July. We visited many other ports and had a ball. Nobody talked politics. We talked tall ships, sailing seamanship, singing and showing off. It never changes.

What is it really that’s stopping you?

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Such a direct ask can only be answered by nebulous virtue signaling word salad.

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Anagram of “supercalifr…”? No, fuggedaboudit!
Wrong salad

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It’s not hard to read between the lines.

Trump and his administration have been extremely aggressive toward Canadians. Calling them a potential “51st state” and the recent news about secret meetings with Canadian separatists is just the first thing that comes to mind. It’s not so important to list the ways this administration has offended our northerly neighbors, so much as to recognize that Canada has reacted accordingly and there are currently mass boycotts of travel and US products. In that context, this is no surprise.

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So, going to China then?

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Lots of talk about boycotting the World Cup in USA, Mexico and Canada scheduled for July this year. Not only in countries on the “visa shitlist”:

Here a comment from across the border:

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Do not let the boom drop on your collective heads, Canadian mariners, on your way out. So even your hero, the Muslim Communist mayor of N.Y was not enough to convince your self-loathing, Western civilization, sovereign nation hating, secure border hating Snowflake selves to sail through the perilous waters and endeavor to participate. How interesting, and all because you so despise the enforcement of our national borders and immigration laws and prefer that both Canada and the US have open borders and allow 20, 30, 50 million or more unvetted, criminal and/or Western hating unassimilated largely third world, fourth world Muslim, female hating, freedom hating hordes be allowed in. Allowed in, without any screening as the demonic, treasonous Biden-Democrat administration of Marxist suicidal scum allowed in the 4 years before and the worthless Rino Bush, leftist Clinton and Marxist racist Obama administrations did before. Enforcing our immigration laws to prevent massive demographic annihalation, Congressional gerrymandering apportionment and hopefully slowing the destruction of our republic is offensive to you. Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. Good Riddance snowflakes both Canadians and Americans of the lower 48.

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Nope. Could not care less what the EUROTRASH think or like.

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This is a shame.

There are three sisterships all built 10 years apart, SL II in Kingston and Playfair and Pathfinder in Toronto. I spent 4 years there as a teenager, then went on to ship all over the world before becoming a pilot.

It’s a great program that has turned out scores of mariners who went on to make it their life and career.

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Funny. Freeze in your icdebox Canadian Morons

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If so, I guess that really says something about how far their opinion of the US has fallen, doesn’t it?

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Can a MOD check his meds?

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