Ms. Garfield said she was hoping Amistad could raise enough money to build bunks for the students for use during extended educational sails.
The college's 22 athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I, and in 2015, the college's co-educational sailing team won the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for the sixth time.
Curators plan to put the boat back to work as an educational tool, sailing the bay while teaching passengers about wooden boats and Long Island's marine industries.
Mr. Ritchie sees Greenport as a worthy place to dock and restore the Fire Fighter and to use it for educational and recreational sails for the public, as well as programs for military veterans, students and others.
One big step in that direction is the establishment of Community Eco Docks in neighborhoods around the five boroughs for sailing ships and educational and historic vessels.
Its author, Sail Suleman, told the Times Educational Supplement that schools should not shy away from asking pupils to think about what turns people into extremists.
(Did you know that Pier 54 in Chelsea was where the Titanic was supposed to dock and where the Lusitania set sail? If not, the happy tour will be educational. New Yorkers will judge how irritating a repeated education can become).
Mrs. Koch-Sundquist, 27, is a site director at the Charlestown Navy Yard for the Courageous Youth Program, a nonprofit educational program in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, that provides free sailing lessons to Boston youth.
Mr. Buell was among a group of educators who participated in a project coordinated by Learn of Southeastern Connecticut, one of the state's six regional educational centers, to create an educational curriculum for students as they board or sail aboard the vessel.
The students went on a half-day sail as the first of an estimated 1,000 students in the state who will participate in educational programs on the vessel this school year.
