CASTINE (AP) – Maine Maritime Academy’s schooner Bowdoin heads off Thursday on a 60-day sail training trip to the Arctic Circle with 11 students and 5 professional crew members.

The voyage is the at-sea component of a 12-week course in the overall maintenance and operation of a traditional sailing vessel.

Bowdoin was built in 1921 at Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard in East Boothbay, now Hodgdon Yachts Inc.