We motor
sailed across Buzzard Bay from New Bedford with a full ship
for a course offered by the South Coast Learning Network
(SCLN) featuring Randal Peffer, author of Logs of the Dead
Pirates Society. When
a ship leaves New Bedford and runs the channel out past
Butler's Flat light, the course down this fairly straight run,
if run out across Buzzards Bay, would come in at Kettle Cove
on Naushon Island. We had the anchorage to ourselves and spent
the calm night listening to loons calling from inshore. After
the ship was squared away for the night and dinner dishes were
done, Randy read several passages from his book and then we
traded stories from the past. Ernestina ex-Effie M.
Morrissey has come through these waters before under the
command of Bob Bartlett and Cmdr. Alexander Forbes as well as
during the Cape Verdean packet years. Program
Coordinator: Rhonda Moniz
Captain: Gregg Swanzey
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