SV Rocinante - 2005
From Haverstraw, NY to Penobscot Bay, Maine. The trip is scheduled to last approximately 30 days, leaving Haverstraw on August 1st, 2005
tracking : 19 recorded positions
tracking : 19 recorded positions
| Last Position: 41°18'27.00 N 71°38'34.08 W on August 25th 2005 @ 18:48 |
Ship's Log:
Thursday, August 25, 2005
After breakfast, we spent the morning planning our next leg... this one is going to be tough!
We need to get up Buzzards Bay.. now why the heck would you name a body of water we need to traverse after a flying scavenger that feeds on the remains of the dead? Couldn´t they call it "flat as glass bay"? Of course not! After that, we need to make our way through the Cape Cod canal... nasty current, so a vessel like ours (oh so lovely, but slow as all heck) is only allowed to enter with a favorable current... that would be somewhere around 10:00 PM Friday night which means that we would exit on the other side somewhere around midnight... gee, sounds like fun!
That being the case, we arranged for a slip on the Eastern end of the canal to spend the night before proceeding across to Provincetown the following morning.
With our next leg charted, we decided to take some time to scrub Rocinante down before catching the water shuttle from Goat Island to Newport for the day.
Quick side note has to be made: Maria is really starting to get the hang of using the parallel rules to determine course headings as well as the dividers to tick off distances on the chart... on the trip to Newport, we calculated estimated positions on the chart every hour and were pretty much dead on when we compared our results to the GPS... we´re ready for anything!
We headed to Newport, had a ridiculously expensive lunch consisting of the worst crab cakes and mussels we´ve ever had (the fries where good) grabbed some Ben and Jerry´s and spent the next few hours walking around Newport.
Around 3:30 or so, we headed back, did a small load of laundry (hey, you do it while you have the chance you know?)
Tonight we´ll eat, drink and be merry... tomorrow?
Till next time,
Carlos & Maria
SV Rocinante..._/)
After breakfast, we spent the morning planning our next leg... this one is going to be tough!
We need to get up Buzzards Bay.. now why the heck would you name a body of water we need to traverse after a flying scavenger that feeds on the remains of the dead? Couldn´t they call it "flat as glass bay"? Of course not! After that, we need to make our way through the Cape Cod canal... nasty current, so a vessel like ours (oh so lovely, but slow as all heck) is only allowed to enter with a favorable current... that would be somewhere around 10:00 PM Friday night which means that we would exit on the other side somewhere around midnight... gee, sounds like fun!
That being the case, we arranged for a slip on the Eastern end of the canal to spend the night before proceeding across to Provincetown the following morning.
With our next leg charted, we decided to take some time to scrub Rocinante down before catching the water shuttle from Goat Island to Newport for the day.
Quick side note has to be made: Maria is really starting to get the hang of using the parallel rules to determine course headings as well as the dividers to tick off distances on the chart... on the trip to Newport, we calculated estimated positions on the chart every hour and were pretty much dead on when we compared our results to the GPS... we´re ready for anything!
We headed to Newport, had a ridiculously expensive lunch consisting of the worst crab cakes and mussels we´ve ever had (the fries where good) grabbed some Ben and Jerry´s and spent the next few hours walking around Newport.
Around 3:30 or so, we headed back, did a small load of laundry (hey, you do it while you have the chance you know?)
Tonight we´ll eat, drink and be merry... tomorrow?
Till next time,
Carlos & Maria
SV Rocinante..._/)
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