After an early morning 5am gathering at UMASS Boston by folks from Lotus/IBM, UMASS Boston and Yankee Publishing, along with a film crew and Lisa Hughes from WBZ Channel 4, all headed out to Ernestina at anchor in the Boston Harbor Islands just SE of Long Island to get aboard with the UMASS Boston program underway. This started a spectacular day of ships parading into Boston Harbor from all over the world. We're especially thankful to Chris Sweeney for running the M/V Hurricane to get all of those joining the ship for the day out to the ship.

The images to the right show Kruzenshtern and Amerigo Vespucci along with the Pride of Baltimore and Corwith Cramer underway. You can see Ernestina's track in the mustering area during the morning on the upper chart before reentering the harbor escorting the Pride of Baltimore by early afternoon. Nahant is in the upper end of the image with the ship currently entering the Main Channel.

Huge numbers of people were out at Castle Island to view the ships. Lisa Hughes sent up a running commentary to Channel 4 direct from the decks of the ship. By all reports, the coverage was great for the day! We appreciate Lisa and the team and their efforts to get the story out about these great ships.

The Parade ran all the way in to Charlestown (as shown on the lower chart image) before we turned to run out to drop everyone off at the JFK Library in the early evening and return for the night to lie alongside the Eye of the Wind for the night at Hoosac Pier across from the USS Constitution. We would like to extend sincere thanks to Jay Messana for running the launch to get folks off and on at the JFK Library.

The inset chart image shows our dockage at Hoosac Pier in Charlestown.

The Wind: NW'ly Force 1 rising to 3
Visibility: Excellent Weather!

Captain: Willi Bank
Program Coordinator: Crista Mellican