Programs Blog

29 August 2025

Location (Lat and Long): 38 13.0’N 143 13.3’W

Ship Heading: 035

Ship Speed: 4.9 kn

Log (nm): 1612 nm

Weather/Wind/Sail Plan: Broad reaching under the storm trys’l, stays’ls, tops’l, and Raffee

Hello all from Anna! I am from Washington and once lived in a tiny house. What more proof do you need that it is me? I have certainly not asked somebody else to start today’s blog post for me today; that would be ridiculous. Happy birthday to my dear friend, whose birthday it is. I definitely chose today to write the blog so that I could wish you a happy birthday, and also for sure did not forget to tell my good friends Jeremy and Sam and Rosie and Bradley your name. Happy birthday friend, may all your birthday dreams come true, and may all your birthday nightmares remain silent beasts roaming about your brain, never released to reality <3 (totally from Anna, not Rosie)

Today I embroidered shorts onto my shorts, and in turn labeled them “my shorts” so that I would not forget. Also, I went down to dry stores a few times to look longingly at the array of perfect eggs and imagine what it would be like to smash them all one by one with the back of a spoon. I don’t think that my small business investment in helm-side hamster water bottles is going to take off, probably because I actually stole the whole idea from Jeremy.

The other day I also set up the halyard for the storm trys’l which was cool as heck and I definitely didn’t let the block come untied and swing around everywhere. And also my favorite crewmate Sam taught a really cool class about eyeballs today. In addition to the Helmster Bottle 5000 I also added a drawing of Santa carrying the raffee in its little sack to The Crew Transit Log Logged by the Crew Transit Crew (aka The People’s Log).

I woke up this morning to watch Rosie come sliding out of the reefer and fall to the ground, but saved the tray of bagels she was holding. We woke up especially early to bake the bagels we made for everyone, and also for your birthday. After Rosie got baking soda in her eye, we ate some of the world’s best bagels. Then we went sailing. By sailing I mean sailing, we stopped motoring, set the jib, the storm tris’l, and the tops’l, and enjoyed some great sailing weather. A bit of brisk, fresh breeze steering us straight towards Seattle. Almost 1000 nm from any land. We do seem to be entertaining ourselves well. Yesterday the science department counted over 2,400 pieces of plastic in their Neuston tow. Maisie then counted out the number of pieces of plastic they have counted over the last 4 days in her navigation report. Represented by little dots on a whiteboard. I’m not sure if you’ve also been updated about the tropic bird, but that was very exciting for us all, especially Rosie who gave it flight again with her bare hands. Jeremy spilled spicy mayo all over his lunch today because the lid to the bottle wasn’t screwed on all the way – that news spread across the ship like wild fire. It was an exciting day. It’s about time for nautical twilight, which is an ever-increasingly popular event here on the Robert Seamans’ Crew Transit Transit. Also I probably saw about 25 shooting stars last night.

May you never get a splash of chocolate in your eye,

Goodnight

-Totally Anna

Thank you to my awesome shipmates Jeremy, Sam, Bradley and Rosie for ghost-writing this blog for me while I embroidered shorts onto my shorts, and for giving me a good laugh. They’ve demonstrated perfectly the meaning of Ship, Shipmate, Self, and all the information in this blog is 100% accurate.

Happy birthday Wren! I hope you get lots of cake and aquaphor today. I wrote this acrostic for you in honor of your special day because I love you so much!:

W- wreally awesome

R- really really awesome

E- epic

N- neat!

–Definitely Anna and not someone else, deckhand, A watch