Flint School

Girls as well as boys aged 12 to 18 sailed the world aboard the steel-hulled auxiliary schooners Te Vega (ex-Etak, ex-Vega, ex–USS Juniata, now Deva), and teQuest (ex–Black Douglas, ex-Aquarius, ex–Aquarius W, now El Boughaz I) while studying an academic curriculum.

In its pedagogy, the Flint School combined elements from Alan Villiers' earlier seaborne program with Maria Montessori's Casa dei Bambini.

Similarly, the Stolls emphasized the importance of the Austrian School of economics, despite Rand's having characterized Friedrich Hayek as "an example of our most pernicious enemy."

The ships were instead based abroad, with favorite adopted home ports being Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Pointe-à-Pitre, and La Condamine and Fontvieille, Monaco.

Additionally, the ships frequented some of the world's most exclusive marinas and anchorages, among them Puerto José Banús, Porto Cervo, Portofino, Villefranche-sur-Mer, and Gustavia roadstead in Saint Barthélemy.

Sailing afforded an opportunity to visit nearly all the major coastal and insular destinations in Europe and the Caribbean Basin, many of which were poorly served by air, or were otherwise very remote.

Among the more unusual places the ships visited were Devil's Island, Paramaribo, Bonifacio, St. Peter Port, Rønne, Heraklion, Portoferraio, Valletta, Macapá, Îles des Saintes, Gibraltar, Curaçao, Dakar, Cape Verde, Agadir, and Ponta Delgada.