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Monday, 07 July, 2025

Noon Position: (Lat and Long): 42 degrees 10.3’ N, 069 degrees 43.0’ W

Log (nm): 360 nm

Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change): Sailing under the forestays’l, the mainstays’l, and the mains’l, with Beaufort Force 5 winds.

Description of location: Wilkinson Basin in the Gulf of Maine

A Watch was on a double shift today, starting with a dawn watch from 0100 to 0700. The beginning of the day was very rough, with thick fog and occasional spray from the windswept sea below. However, A watch persevered, making it to Tea Time at 0400 largely unscathed by the sea (and entirely uninjured). Once off watch, the group was greeted below by a breakfast fit for a king: French toast and sausage.

Around mid-afternoon, all hands were called to the quarter-deck for the Line Chase: a competition to see which of the different watch groups were best acquainted with the many halyards, downhauls, and sheets that control the sails of Cramer. Unfortunately for our heroes, A watch did not win and found themselves in second place behind B watch.

Later in the day, A watch was called upon again to perform their duties on Watch, taking on the 1900 to 0100 shift. The seas, thankfully, looked calmer than the group’s dreadful dawn watch previously that day.

Hello family. It will please you all to know I am doing well. So excited to see y’all in just a few days! Love you guys 🙂 – Lily

Hi everybody! I am doing quite fine and the ship life is keeping me nice and busy. I have not been aloft yet, but if I do then all I would see would be water. Maybe I’d see a little spout way off in the north.

Henry Geraci, Avery Melnick, Lily Hood, and the rest of A Watch