I was reading through all of the information on Sea Year and thought I would post something that kept the family engaged and up to date while our son was traveling around the world. It was a fun way to keep track of his travels while out on Sea Year and his internship on a tug boat.
We purchased a 1.5' x 3' world map and attached it to a piece of foam board. I then got a pack of multi colored stick pins. When I was able to locate his ship or when we received information on where he was we stuck a pin in the map. He was on four different ships so we used four different colored pins. I also printed out pictures of each ship and put those on the map.
If you are going to do this get a world map that is centered on the Atlantic or the Pacific based on were your kid will be most of the time. You also do not want to put a pin in every day. I placed a pin every day on the first trip and ran out of pins and the map got too cluttered.
Now that he is finished with his sailing for a while it is a great conversation piece in my office.