We sat at Fan Pier tied alongside the
Schooner Harvey Gamage on Monday. Maintenance
took place- tarring the head rig and shrouds,
oiling boxes, stopping the leak in the airhorn
compressor, swapping out a new jib sheet, end for
ending the main sheet etc. We continued
orientation for new crew along with a food
delivery and other preparations for the next
trip. We met with Capt. Doug Liesure and Program
Coodinator Jim Coor from Schooner Harvey Gamage
to discuss the trip to come, with time in the
afternoon for some crew to visit the New England
Aquarium, a visiting Viking ship and to grab
showers. Pre-trip meeting over dinner. The bunks
were prepped, plenty of food, fuel and water
aboard as we ready for St. Margarets McTernan. Today
St. Margaret's McTernan arrives for a four day
program. The group of 15 arrived from St.
Margaret McTernan's around 11:15 this morning:
thirteen students and two leaders. We took an
hour orientation to the holds before departure,
raised the fore and jumbo and satiated our
appetites before raising the main and jib off of
Deer Island Light. We are travelling in company
with the Harvey Gamage who also has a group of
10th graders from the same school. We departed
about the same time, both sailinf for anchorage
in Gloucester Harbor tonight.
As seen in the chart image, we
are just passing the Graves on our starboard
after departing the South Channel. The 20-25
knots predicted SW wind is showing up more
Southerly at about 10 knots. We are headed
downwind Gloucesterbound at the moment....about
to set the jib topsail.
Our line and sail handling
training paid off as we sailed up to our
anchorage and struck and furled all sails just as
the sun was setting and the full moon was rising.
Dinner on the hook.
Our evening activities explored
the cultural and exploritory history of the ship
with a creative game show hosted by Crista
Mellican. Everyone is asking more questions about
the ship now!
Our longtime volunteer
deckhand, Gregg Germaine, paid a visit to the
Harvey Gamage to offer an evening class in
navigation. He covered the basics of celestial
and solar navigation (sun and stars) with a
demonstration of the technology used from the 15
to 18th century. He demonstrated that the
mathematics required for people to make these
instruments exceed the tenth grade level, and
great achievements can be made with constant
learning. Gregg will be giving the same class to
our students tomorrow morning.
Wind: S'ly, Force 3
Visibility: Sunny, Good
Barometer: Falling Slowly
Captain: Amanda
Madeira
Program Coordinator: Crista Mellican
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