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Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000
Time: 1500 EDT

When do we get to go swimming? Was one of the questions at the end of morning meeting. The ship was just departing Stellwagen bank. How warm do you think the water will be we asked. This led to a competition of who could guess what the temperature difference would be of the water in Cape Cod Bay and the temperature of the water in Buzzards Bay at our anchorage. All guessed warmer in Buzzards Bay and the range from 3 degrees different to nine degrees different. (It was clarified that it would be in degrees Fahrenheit.) The thermometer showed a five-degree difference at our swim call in the afternoon. 20.5 C and 23 degrees C or 69*F and 74* F.

We took a look at salinity and water clarity, students took turns climbing aloft and out on the bow sprit

The Schooner Harvey Gamage caught up to us and headed to the anchorage in Aucoot Cove first. We rounded up behind them and sailed onto the hook about 1/10th a mile abeam of them. Life ring and rescue boat launched, swim call officially began. Salt-water bathing was a new experience for many. Before long our dories were launched, one sent to the Gamage for the rowing relay. All watches did a spectacular job in the choppy water rowing the dories between boats.

We accepted the invitation to join the Harvey Gamage for an hour of banjo, guitar and singing, and once back aboard Ernestina each watch presented their “glow in the dark, glitter paint”-phosphorescence skits. I think we all needed a good nights sleep after the full day.

You can see the tracks of the the first day of our voyage in red and the second, overnight and early the third day in purple. We crossed Cape Cod Bay early this morning and came through the Cape Cod Canal just before lunch.

Wind: SW'ly, Force 2
Visibility: Sunny, Excellent
Barometer: 30.10" Steady

Captain: Amanda Madeira
Program Coordinator: Crista Mellican

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