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Member Transit
New Bedford to Boston
Friday, June 20-Sunday, June 22, 2003

Friday, June 20, 2003

 

After breakfast and chores, the Ernestina crew spent the morning catching up on maintenance projects around the ship.  The UMASS Boston crew spent two hours planning our transit to Boston, taking into account tides, currents, weather and our time of arrival.

After lunch on board the UMASS Boston crew took time to visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum, look around the historic area of New Bedford and tour a US Coast Guard vessel.

At 1600 everyone met back at the ship to prepare for our transit to Boston.  We left the dock at 1700 with winds force 3 out of the northeast and clear skies.  After dinner underway, we dropped anchor at 2030 in Wild Harbor just southeast of the south entrance to the Cap Cod Canal.  After the ship was all secure, everyone enjoyed spending some quiet time on deck on our first night away from the dock enjoying the company of their crew mates and a beautiful sunset. During a surprise visit, ex-Ernestina crewmembers Steve Kirk and Katie Krause visited us in their catboat.  There were also a few people on a power boat who said that they would be sailing on the ship out of Woods Hole with us on July 6th.

We plan to catch the fair current through the canal tomorrow morning and we will be on our way to Boston. 

Program Coordinators: Kristen Sharpless
Captain: Amanda Madeira

The track from New Bedford to anchorage waiting for the tide.

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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