| The morning anchor watches felt the
drizzle roll in by daybreak as the slow moving
warm front attempted to stay with us. All of
"B" watch was up at 0400 to haul back
the anchor and get underway to make good the 118
miles to the Cape Cod Canal. The drizzle left us
by 1100 and the eager and inquisitive crew set
the main, fore and jumbo to motorsail in the
light SE breeze. Too light to keep up our needed
speed of 6 knots. Susan
Weisbren, Ph.D., led a morning workshop for the
young adults engaging them to express their pros
and cons frustrations and support of their
experiences of
their medical conditions (PKU). A few minke whales were sighted near
Jeffreys Ledge. That afternoon another class with
everyone followed by a presentation on the
biology of Stellwagen Bank by Crista Mellican
(our program coordinator). The class was
disrupted many times as we were able to shut down
the engine and sail for an hour in the light
breeze. This seemed to attract many humpback
whales. One pod we spent time with I think no one
will forget, for if anyone has heard a whales
breath coming form their blowhole, it's a sound
which is amazing.
Underway again by dusk towards
the canal. We struck the main after dinner, and
the fore and jumbo at the change of the watch at
2300 as we entered Cape Cod Canal on a fair
current.
To visit Brian and Mike
Goertz's site with images and an expedition log
book ~click here~
Wind: SE'ly and light
Visibility: Fair
Captain: Amanda
Madeira
Program Coordinator: Crista Mellican
Ashore the Maritime Mathematics Summer
Institute for Teachers is happening.
During the Maritime Mathematics
Summer Content Institute funded by the Department
of Education and hosted by Bridgewater State
College, Southeast PALMS Coalition and Schooner
Ernestina, fourteen participants will spend five
days developing a comprehensive knowledge of
mathematics as it relates to the learning
standards for their grade level in the classroom
at Bridgewater State College. During the second
week of the institute teachers will travel to New
Bedford for a series of hands-on workshops, both
on the water and ashore, in applied mathematics
focused on navigation, scientific sampling, spar
construction, buoyancy and the technology of a
19th century schooner.
After a period of independent
study participants will come back for three
Institute callbacks to apply concepts aboard a
working schooner, present course units and then
report on student assessment.
The images shown to the right
show teachers exploring the mathematics of
stability, buoyancy, displacement, spar
construction and mechanics ashore at Ernestina's
facility and at a shop next to the New Bedford
Whaling Musuem with Leon Poindexter, sparmaker.
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