Information Session - In-Person: Los Angeles Maritime Institute
Adventure awaits at LAMI!
Los Angeles Maritime Institute is a nonprofit organization that uses hands-on experiences at sea to provide an array of social, education, and leadership development opportunities to middle school and high school students in San Pedro and Wilmington, and throughout Los Angeles County. Our TopSail Youth Program is offered year-round aboard the Tall Ships SSV Irving Johnson and SSV Exy Johnson, 110-foot traditionally rigged vessels named after sail training pioneers who sailed around the world seven times with young crews. Our purpose-built vessels and their young crews were proclaimed the “Official Tall Ships and Maritime Ambassadors of the City of Los Angeles” at their launch in 2002.
We offer:
- Day programs and voyages
- Hands-on STEM learning
- Maritime skill-building and sea-time certification
- Boatbuilding
- Private charters
- Community sails
- Volunteer Youth Crew Program
- Adult volunteer program
MISSION- The Los Angeles Maritime Institute (LAMI) serves to empower youth to discover their greater potential through extraordinary at-sea experiences aboard educational sailing vessels built to train and equip young people with 21st-century leadership skills and inspire maritime and STEM career paths.
VISION- We envision a thriving community where every young person can look to the future with confidence and navigate successfully and responsibly in life.
