After a sendoff by parents and Mayor Fred Kalisz Thursday morning, the City of New Bedford After-School Program students arrived from New Bedford yesterday evening after an incredible journey by bus to Providence, RI, Amtrack Train to Penn Station, Subway to Grand Central Station and Metro North to Yonkers. They sat down in a waterfront park for some pizza and to await the schooner's arrival. The ship came in later in the evening on time and they settled down into bunks that are theirs for five days. A great effort by Polly Zajac, David Eatough and Dave Monk to make all the connections and on the ship as planned!

After breakfast and orientation to the ship, the students went up to the Hudson River Museum for a tour hosted by the students from the local school and then an exchange where our students brought their Yonkers counterparts down to the ship for a sail.

The track to the right shows the ship sailing a port track in light wind. Even though the ship is constantly steering upriver (up on the chart), the current is ebbing, that is, moving downriver, for the time. Sometimes the ship could stem the tide and sometimes not.....

After the sail back to Yonkers City Pier, the ship took off again for Liberty Landing Marina at Liberty State Park to lay for the weekend during the "Ships to Save the Waters" Conference. Pete Seeger is host and Madame Francine Cousteau is keynote speaker.

Wind: light
Visibility: Fair

Captain: Willi Bank
Program Coordinators:
Crista Mellican (ship), Polly Zajac (After-School Program)