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Date: Sunday, June 25, 2000
Time: 1200 EDT

We continue alongside in the port of Wilmington amongst the Class A Ships from around the world. The weather has been sunny, hot and humid for three days with SSW winds around ten knots Fri and Sat. Today the SW breeze has freshened with afternoon vertical development of clouds. One sail today- taking out a full boat with some crew of the other vessels onboard as well.

We are getting ready for the girl scouts to board this afternoon. Seven of them have not arrived as of yet and we are hoping to go out and anchor off to watch the fireworks. We'll see.

For this 'Sail of the Millennium' we thank our sponsor, Yankee Publishing, known for their magazine and The Farmer's Almanac. You can see the Yankee burgee and signal flags running aloft with the Tall Ship rigging of the Kruzenshtern in the background. Carlene Carey, Director of Business Development from Yankee Publishing, has been with us all weekend getting the word out about our partnership and making arrangements for working together for all our stops.

The photo to the right was taken yesterday. Saturday the 24th of June is a day each year when amateur radio operators in the United States gather together in an event called Field Day. On this occassion hams exercise their communications skills needed for emergency operations. While aboard the Ernestina, John Cray (shown holding his radio) made quite a few contacts with others participating in Field Day. He plans to send this picture to QST magazine (a ham publication) with a large circulation. To his knowledge this is the first time a Field Day station has been aboard a Tall Ship.
Taudi Coli N1HPX (crew)
Bert Flower N1MXO (member)
Fred Sterner N1BZG (crew)
Steve Swift WB1GVC (ship engineer)
John Kray KA2CNG (member)

Wind: SW Force 4
Visibility: Reduced in hot, hazy weather

Captain: Amanda Madeira
Program Coordinator: Inette Rex

We would like to thank Lotus and IBM for donation of software, hardware and funding to enable regular electronic updates from the ship.

NOAA Chart is provided courtesy of Maptech using Cruising Navigator 4.3 and grabbing the image using Grabit Pro 6.02.

 
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