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Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2001

5 September (composed by Mike Stewart, Kaitlyn Tuite)

Woke up bright and early on Wednesday morning alongside at the Gloucester State Pier. ERNESTINA members David Kaye, Ed and Alicia Ditto, Scott and Tracy Brewick, and Bob Hanson joined the ship's company for the transit South and West to Norwalk, CT.

At 0800 we sprung off the pier and motorsailed out of Cape Ann Harbor under the fores'l and jumbo. It was a bright and beautiful morning and by 0900 we flew the jib and fisherman. After chores and deckwash, all hands gathered to the main halyards and we set the mains'l. We shut down the main engine and began our sail South to the Cape Cod Canal.There was rarely a moment when our members weren't either aloft or handling lines. Winds layed down as the day progressed and we struck the fisherman, fired up the engine once again.

Shortly before entering the Canal we struck our jib as well. Along the Canal all kinds of people were enjoying the late afternoon, fishing, biking, or seated in lawn chairs, watching as the old ERNESTINA sailed by.

You can go to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy Web Site and view the Cape Cod Canal anytime at http://www.mma.edu/other/canal.html . Show at right is the image we pulled off just as Ernestina passed by the Railroad Bridge in Bourne.

As evening fell the crew flaked out a shot and a half of chain in preparation for anchoring off the Weepecket Islands on the North Shore of Naushon, one of the Captain's favorite anchorages. It was dark and the wind and sea calm when we dropped the hook not far off the middle Weepecket Island. Traveling by small motor launch, the crew's friend Gordon Sims arrived alongside from Hadley Harbor and joined the ship for a magnificent moonrise.

During the night watches the stars were "raging", and coyotes and great horned owls punctuated the stillness.

Captain: Sophie Morse
Program Coordinator: Inette Rex

 

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