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Schooner Amistad returns to its roots in mission of 'friendship and solidarity'
Matanzas, Cuba - Under a hot, late-morning sun, Staci Detwiler sat on a bulkhead of the schooner Amistad, surrounded by children in the maroon uniforms of the Escuela Vocacional de Arte Alfonso Perez.
The schooner rocked against the huge black bumpers of the industrial pier, and when one of the children began to turn slightly green, Detwiler, a deckhand who has worked on the Amistad for 10 months, offered to continue the lesson on land.
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