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The Liberty Schooner, which operates out of New Jersey but provides a variety of tours in New York, Miami, and even Cape Horn, just touched down in Jacmel, Haiti. The excursion company has teamed up with the Haiti Aid Network to pack its 78-foot sailboat with 10,000 pounds of relief supplies from South Miami to Haiti.

Owner/operator Sharon du Plessis provides this latest update on the boat’s successful arrival:

It was great to hear that our boat and crew arrived safely in Jacmel, Haiti yesterday late morning. They had an uneventful docking at the main cargo dock there. After some interesting dockside negotiations between various organizations, some whom our load of cargo had been designated for and others to whom it was not, the cargo load was discharged and handed over to those to whom we had been commissioned to give it. The off-loading process itself only took a few hours with the help of our awesome crew and by afternoon yesterday the boat, minus the few crew members who disembarked in Haiti for further relief work, set sail again for Jamaica. We have already made preparation for them to dock in Jamaica for a couple of days to rest and reprovision, as well as to pick up a fresh new crew member, before returning to Miami, via the Florida Keys. We are expecting them to arrive in Jamaica by first light tomorrow morning. I can’t wait to speak with them once they get there.

Thank you all for your continued support and well wishes during this time. If any of your would like to be involved by supporting financially or in any other way in preparation for our next trip to Haiti, please comment on the blog or email me at liberty.schooner@gmail.com.

You can follow their progress through Facebook or on the official blog.

Even with this success, they are far from their goal of $15,000. If you’d like to donate, visit the Haiti Aid Network. Want to know what worldwide aid looks like so far? CBS News has those national statistics, including

- The World Bank is providing a $100 million grant, and the U.N. is sending $10 million.
- Britain: $10 million, 71 rescue specialists with search dogs
- Sweden: $650,000 plus tents, water purification equipment and medical aid. It is also sending a team to build a new base to replace the U.N.’s destroyed headquarters.
- Israel plans to open a field hospital and is sending 220 rescue workers.

[Via Liberty Schooner blog, CBS News]

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