Programs Blog

Saturday, 18 October 2025

Position: 37° 50.88’ N x 071° 55’ W

Currently Hove To for Science Station under the Mains’l, mainstays’l, and forestays’l

Mostly Clear skies with cumulous clouds on the horizon, wind NxW, Force 4.

Roughly 10 nm north of the Gulf Stream

Greetings to all! The last few days have been a “finding your sea legs” challenge for the student crew in terms of adjusting to the motion of the ship as we safely navigated around some heavy weather. Looking at a computer screen for more than a minute or so was definitely not an option for them, so we pressed pause on their blog entries. HOWEVER, nothing could stop us from celebrating Carter’s birthday yesterday! The stewards baked up a lovely (if slightly angled due to the tack we were on) chocolate cake with loads of whipped cream frosting with some birthday confetti mixed in (pictures to come!). It was a fun and delicious afternoon celebration.

So, until we get back to students feeling up for writing on our ship’s computers, this is a quick hello from the crew to our loyal blog followers and let you know that all is well.  We are on track to enter into the Gulf Stream current later today under fairly calm conditions, and we will use that major ocean current and some lovely winds out of the north to get east before we turn south again toward the US Virgin Islands.

Stay tuned for the imminent resumption of student entries!

Best,

Craig, Sailing Faculty