Blogs from the SSV Corwith Cramer
Part of the Sea
Isabelle Cadene, Deckhand, B Watch Ship's Log Noon Position 18° 13.23’ N x 064° 47.17’ W Ship Heading (degrees) / Ship Speed (knots) 240 PSC / 1.7 knots Taffrail Log (nm) 731.2 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) Wind SSW F1, Seas SSW <1 ft, 28.°C, Four [...]
A Day Ashore
Evan Sorlie, SUNY-ESF, B Watch Ship's Log Noon Position 18º03.5’N, 064º45.0’W Ship Heading (degrees) / Ship Speed (knots) Anchored Taffrail Log (nm) 713.5 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) Calm winds, Force 1 Beaufort, less than 1ft waves from SSW, 3/8 cloud cover, 29°C Description of location [...]
Square Sails, Slopping, and Sitting Below Deck Trying Not To Be Seasick Because You’ve Gotten Used To The Ship Being Roughly Stable For The Last Week But Now It’s Not
Andre Lai, UC San Diego, C Watch Ship's Log Noon Position 18º03.5’N, 064º45.0’W Ship Heading (degrees) / Ship Speed (knots) Anchored Taffrail Log (nm) 713.5 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) Wind direction NxW, Beaufort Force 3; sea direction NxW, wave height 3 ft; cloud cover 4/8, [...]
Sun, Snorkel, Smiles, and Stories: What Could Be Better Than This?
Kaleena Davis, Deckhand, A Watch Ship's Log Noon Position 18°18.82’N, 64°46.31’W Ship Heading (degrees) / Ship Speed (knots) Anchored Taffrail Log (nm) 671.5 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) NExE, Force 3 (on the Beaufort Scale), Calm seas. Sky: 4/8 cloud cover, Cumulus and Stratocumulus. Temperature 25° [...]
That’s It, That’s The Magic.
Gaia Wilson, Mate in Training, B Watch Ship's Log Noon Position 18°18.82’N, 64°46.31’W Ship Heading (degrees) / Ship Speed (knots) Anchored Taffrail Log (nm) 671.5 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) NxE, Force 2 (on the Beaufort Scale), Calm seas. Sky: 3/8 cloud cover, Cumulus and Stratocumulus. [...]
Rendezvous Bay
Nathan Bears, Chief Mate, A Watch Ship's Log Noon Position 18°18.8’N, 64°46.3’W Ship Heading (degrees) / Ship Speed (knots) Anchored Taffrail Log (nm) 645.3 nm Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) Winds from the North, Seas calm with a long period rolling swell from E X S, [...]
Blogs from the SSV Robert C. Seamans
One Month In, Time For Din Din
Lila Olson (B Watch) & Flora Kerner (A Watch) Ship's Log Noon Position 14° 58.248’ S 147° 38.676’ W Ship Heading & Speed 078° at 0 knots Log 1956 nm Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) Easterly winds, force beauf 2. Eastern seas, 1 ft. 1/8 [...]
Oprah: Conquest of the Saltines
Shay Ridge (B Watch) Ship's Log Noon Position 12°21.031’S x 143°43.416’ W Ship Heading & Speed 220 degrees at 7.2 knots Log 1648 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) Cloudy and overcast, motorsailing under the Fore and Mainstays’ls in winds and seas of 2ft coming [...]
Jordan’s Birthday Extravaganza
Eden Raich (A Watch) Ship's Log Souls on Board All blogs from S-307 Hello blog, Eden here! I was planning to come up with a more creative start but I'm currently very tired post watch. Luckily, I started off the day very well rested since I [...]
A Day Full of Stars
Rosie (Chad) Chater Ship's Log Noon Position 9°00.613’S x 140°20.773’W Ship Heading & Speed 220 degrees at 8.3 knots Log (nm) 1366 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) Flat calm, quiet seas from the southwest, BF 1, motor sailing under the fore statys’l and main stays’l Description of [...]
I woke up with people yelling…
Massimo (A watch) Ship's Log Noon Position 9° 53.840’S by 139° 00.414’W. Ship Heading 295° Ship Speed 5kts Log 1235nm Weather / Wind Winds E @4-6 kts, seas E @2 ft, sunny, 30.0°C Souls on Board All blogs from S-307 I woke up with people yelling [...]
Hotter Than the Equator
Ben Porter (A Watch) (With Help From Evan) Ship's Log Noon Position 10°07.133’S x 138°59.675’W Ships Heading & Speed 000° at 3 kts Log 1217 nm Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change) Winds NNE @4-6 kts, seas NNE @1-2 ft, partly cloudy skies, 30.2°C Description of [...]
Blogs from the SEA Campus
Cloudy Day at Woodneck Beach
Natalie Aluwihare Today we woke up at our normal time and had a whole bunch of things for breakfast. After our watch meetings, we set off to our first class of the day, Oceans & Society. We learned about the different types of sailing methods and different types [...]
Field Trip Day!
Macy Brigham-Hill -- Sidwell Friends School & Edward Iannuzzi-Sucich – Storm King School Today we woke up bright and early (at 6:45am!!) to go on a field trip to visit Woods Hole and tour the Vineyard Sound on the Zephyr. After a short breakfast, we drove [...]
A Humid Day on the Cape
Marina Loewen – Lord Byng Secondary School & Miles Gabriele-Burke St. Francis School We started today off with a walk to the knob. It’s a little dike with a point at the end where you can view of the ocean. There was a really nice wind that took [...]
SEA’s Cape day one!!
Ella McCarthy- Belmont High School & Sophie Buckley- SSSAS This morning we were awakened by our lovely RAs at 8:00 am. We then had breakfast and began our chores. Everyone is separated into four different watches and each watch is assigned a different task. These tasks include cleaning the common [...]
Whale Watching and Plymouth
Gage Webber, Newton North Highschool Today was quite eventful. I started the day with an early wakeup, some breakfast, and preparing my lunch for the whale watch. After a long bus ride with many bumps, we all made it to the dock where we boarded the boat and [...]
A Day In The Life Of An Oceanographer
Sydney Brant, Winston Preparatory School, Norwalk, CT and Harper Fortgang, Proof School, San Francisco, CA In our morning Oceans and Society class, we discussed the environmental and societal impact of the lobster industry. Every year, hundreds of Right Whales are fatally entangled in lobster trap rope. As a [...]