Well, we made it to Newport with the wind still blowing a steady 25 knots with gusts.  We ended up taking a "tall ship" mooring in the Harbor so we would not be pinned to the dock, banging up against the dock all night.

All participants were ferried ashore by the Old Port Launch and met by parents.  In spite of the weather, the trip went well overall!

In the images to the right, you can see our overall track for the last day, at the helm with the wind well behind us and the mains'l sheeted out, topping up the reefed mains'l with the crew lined up along the main boom, hanging out on the after deck, aloft in the foremast rigging, and running ashore in the launch at the end of the trip.....

Check back in these pages over the next week and we'll post student log entries that are on the way or that people send. You can submit short writeups to be posted to editor@ernestina.org

Captain: Amanda Madeira
Program: Coordinator: Crista Mellican