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Date: Sunday, May 12, 2002

The first member's sail of the season was a transit from New Bedford to Woods Hole via Quicks' Hole. Unfortunately, although 60 members signed up for this one, it wasn't exactly a warm spring day with a nor'easter coming in later on, so the numbers dwindled to 25.

You can see the track overall and the closeup once the ship made it to Dyer's Dock, part of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute facility in Woods Hole.

Here's an email that came through early Monday morning:

Hi, my ten-year-old daughter Leonie and I were on board the Mother's Day sail from New Bedford to Woods Hole, as guests of the ship's doctor, Marcy Franklin (thanks Marcy!).  We are visiting from England, and would like to email our family and friends with the link. We had a wonderful time on watch, when Leonie took the helm just after Tarpaulin Cove on Naushon Island [near the 's' in Naushon].  Here's what she had to say about the day:

"I think it's a very good design, the way the ropes are set up and the way the lower deck is set up, but I think they've been a bit elaborate with the ropes, because they don't actually need all the ropes to sail the schooner - they have three ropes when you only need one or two.  I think having that fourth sail is a good idea because you get a lot more wind.  Being at the helm was easier than I thought it would be.  I think the heads are ingenious, the charts are very detailed, and the crew are very kind.  I'm so very glad the weather held until we docked.  (I'm sure all the ropes have a purpose...the one to pull dogs in, the one to pull people in!, the seventh rope in case the other six break...!!)"
~Leonie Gower~

Thanks for a wonderful first-ever sailing experience, we'll never forget it.  ~Frances Harazi~

It was a pleasure to have you aboard!

Captain: Amanda Madeira
Program: Coordinator Mary Helen Gunn

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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