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Date: Friday, July 28, 2000
Time: 1730 EDT

Last night we came to anchor at 2320 in Wreck Cove on the southern end of Long Island adjacent to Hussey Sound. It was a welcome sound to have the anchor run out and to see the anchor light raised for a break for the night before the Parade of Ships into Portland today. The green track to the right shows our approach.

Aside from the regular watchstanding on short watches thorughout the night, we all got a good nights rest despite the rolling swell that came in from the Gulf of Maine.

During the morning the New England Aquarium crew rose to the task of cleaning the ship from stem to stern.

At 1030 we began hauling back the anchor a link at a time with a pull on the bar equalling a link worth of the 120 feet out. Just as we were about to break the anchor off the bottom, Barque Eagle appeared rounding the point in Hussey Sound just at the entrance of our cove.

We motored out to line up behind the Californian and Harvey Gamage with the Arctic explorer Schooner Bowdoin behind us. You can see the Bowdoin and the Full-rigged Ship Cisne Branco in the image to the right.

The track in red shows the Parade path out Casco Bay and back in the main channel past Portland light. After a spin up into the inner harbor the ship is shown alongside at Portland Yacht Service along with the Schooner Bowdoin.

New England Aquarium students climb aloft, present their bioluminescent sea creature creations, put on a songfest with original lyrics and correography and pose for a group shot before departing with parents and friends and the great New England Aquarium staff who worked hard to make this challenging trip happen. Thanks so much to Julie Crump and Seth Epstein for their work in putting this together with Crista.

The day is not done for the Ernestina crew. Several hours after the Aquarium group leaves we set up for an ondeck reception and fireworks viewing with Swardlick Marketing Group.

Wind: NE'ly and light
Visibility: Fair and improving

Captain: Gregg Swanzey
Program Coordinator: Crista Mellican

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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