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Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000
Time: Noon

Schooner Ernestina came throught the C & D Canal today into the Northern Chesapeake Bay a little after noon and made her way about 12 miles south of Town Point Neck to the mouth of the Sassafras River. This is likely the first time the ship has transitted the C & D.

Shown on the chart is a stretch of the Canal at the Maryland/Delaware border. You can see on the table that we need to think about our "air draft" of 115' as well as our "draft" of 13'. Clearances under power lines and bridges generally are 135' or more for the main waterways. The clearance is based a distance at high tide (mean high water) while water depths are based on low tide (mean low water). Worst case, in general, but we still have to watch the extreme tides.

The winds were light to nil until this afternoon when they picked up to about 15 knots on our nose from the Southwest.

Wind: SW light to Force 4
Visibility: Fair

Captain: Amanda Madeira
Program Coordinator: Polly Zajac

We would like to thank Lotus and IBM for donation of software, hardware and funding to enable regular electronic updates from the ship.

NOAA Chart is provided courtesy of Maptech using Cruising Navigator 4.3 and grabbing the image using Grabit Pro 6.02.

 
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