What about Teambuilding Trips?

We offer a complete menu of full-day onboard business forums ranging from customized focused programs to memorable recreational cruises. Here are your options:

Teambuilding Sail:

If you are looking for a more structured program, i.e., a day on the water where you can work together to accomplish shared goals, ask us about our teambuilding programs. We offer half-day and full-day programs, using the Lannon as an experiential platform. Click here to read more from one of our consultants.

We can work with you to design your own day at sea. Your group will learn how to navigate, how to set and trim sails, and how to steer a course...all in a FUN, hands-on environment led by our capable and experienced crew. You will work together on all aspects of sailing this 65-foot vessel. Thirty passengers maximum. Call us for pricing information.

Here is what one passenger had to say about her day aboard the Lannon with her team:                                                        

"The trip helped us at a critical juncture in the organization when anticipated growth led to a lot of hiring in the Marketing Group, including that of a new VP to head up the team. Prior to the trip, there were distinct personality differences which led to clashes between coworkers almost immediately.

On the trip, we got to know one another, which is still the prerequisite for any functioning team. Personally, I was surprised by the competence different individuals showed in this unusual setting outside the office. People showed unexpected talent in understanding the laws of physics, reading maps and figuring out coordinates, or just
steering the course. This fostered new respect that carried over into the workplace. After the trip, we were truly a team. Interacting with one another had become easier. There were fewer tensions, and the whole group was more productive.

Some of us suggested that this type of team building experience was particularly important in cross-functional teams and in today's virtual teams. In fact, our colleagues in Germany and Sweden adopted similar team-building activities modeled after our trip on the Thomas E. Lannon, in their respective countries and made getting together as a team at regular intervals during the year a priority.

Last but not least, I believe that it helped our new VP. By supporting the trip, he introduced himself to us as somebody who was willing to try new things. This encouraged us to open up and share our ideas for product innovations that we normally would have kept to ourselves out of fear that they were too "risky" and would not be received without criticism.

Although mergers and acquisitions scattered our original team all over the country, I am sure that each participant will take the positive memories of our trip on the Thomas E. Lannon with us to our new companies where it will help us integrate more easily and function better as leaders and members of our new teams."

-- Birgit Mohney
Marketing Communications Manager,
Siemens Medical Systems, Electromedical Systems Division

And another:

I just wanted to personally thank you and your crew for a great teambuilding event yesterday. It is not easy to take 20 people who barely know each other, or what each other looks like for that matter, and get them to work as a team on something they are unfamiliar with. We appreciate your enthusiasm and patience. I'm sure we will all be referring the Thomas E. Lannon Schooner to other corporations and groups. We truly believe it was a successful event!

Thank you again,

--Allison McCarthy
Project Engineer
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

Interested in learning more? Give us a call at (978) 281-6634 and we'll give you more details.

Teambuilding programs on the Lannon encourage interaction in a different setting.

Or a Recreational Cruise:

Strictly for fun! This exceptional adventure has become a popular alternative to the typical company outing. Safe and enjoyable, your sail will be the event everyone talks about for years. Your group will have the boat to yourselves. Kick back, and spend time together in a relaxed setting away from the office.  There is a two-hour minimum for this private charter, though most companies choose to sail for three or four hours. A catered buffet can be served onboard while we sail. Beer and wine are available.

Or, treat your group to a New England lobsterbake with clam chowder, steamers and mussels, cornbread, corn-on-the-cob, boiled red potatoes, and either baked chicken or boiled lobster with all the fixings, prepared by the Gloucester House Restaurant and served onboard as we anchor out in Gloucester harbor. Add $38/pp for the lobsterbake. We suggest scheduling at least a three-hour charter if you opt for the lobsterbake.

Maximum 49 People. $525 per hour midweek.

Give the office a call at (978) 281-6634 and we'll make the planning a breeze.

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