Buy Cider via Sail Freight
WELCOME, SAIL FREIGHT FANS
Welcome to the third season of the Schooner Apollonia Cider Sail Freight Club. Inspired by CSAs but with a sail freight twist, each of your club boxes will contain seasonal and sometimes even exclusive ciders delivered to ports by wind-powered sailboat and solar-powered cargo bike. We are all about reducing fossil fuel use and carbon emissions! This club program is in conjunction with, and parallel too, Schooner Apollonia’s BoatBox subscription. Add it on to your BoatBox order, or choose to go exclusively cider.
Here’s how it works: This year, we are joining Schooner Apollonia for two separate seasons for a total of four sail freight runs: Spring (May and June) and Fall (September and October). You can join us for the Spring Season, the Fall Season, the full 2024 year and all four runs, or just the final run in October. When you join, you’ll pick your season, specify your closest port from our list of partners in advance, and we sail your order to you. You can pick up your box at the dock, where you can chat with the crew and get a tour, or within the week at one of our local community partner locations. This year, we’ll be stopping in: Poughkeepsie - Newburgh - Beacon - Piermont - Ossining - Manhattan (Pier 16) - Brooklyn Bridge Park - Red Hook, Brooklyn - Dobbs Ferry, NY - Kingston - Hudson. We’ll be posting a schedule shortly so you can check dates, but most pickups are the second or third week of the month, depending on the location of your port. Join these CSA’s at any time throughout the sail freight season.
Each cider box will include a curated selection of three bottles from Greenpoint Cidery, including classic favorites, limited seasonal releases, and experimental ciders, sometimes in an exclusive for club participants, plus a zine talking about the ciders, and a botanical clipping from the farm. Boxes will cost approximately $70-75, which includes tax and a small fee to support Schooner Apollonia. Full season members get a 10% discount on the normal website price, and half season members receive a 5% discount. All members also receive a 10% discount code to use on other orders throughout the year. Although you sign up now, you won’t be charged until the week your order is packed onto the boat. Don’t worry: I’ll email you in the weeks leading up to shipment to remind you of your order and even allow you to customize your box.
The CSA-style club model allows me to delve deeper into exploring and foraging for local fruits, herbs and flowers to add to my ciders and wines, and guarantees you access to some of these extremely limited releases, while also allowing you to support carbon-neutral shipping along the Hudson River. Join us as we walk backward into the future, using historic, community-based, low-impact approaches to help us shape our vision of the world.
To sign up:
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and select your choice of club from the dropdown menu: “2024 Full Season Sail Freight Club (4 boxes), “2024 Spring Sail Freight Club (2 boxes),” “2024 Fall Sail Freight Club (2 boxes),” or “October 2024 Sail Freight Cider Club”
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In the “Delivery Options” section, put your preferred pickup port in the “Description” box (this is the first box you can fill in, before your name information), and continue to fill in the rest of the boxes. This is very important, because it tells me and the crew where to deliver your box, so please don’t forget!
Enter your payment information (you won’t get charged until your box is ready to put on the ship each month)
Enter your billing info and birthdate, and join the club!