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: 40°2'30.12 N 70°11'9.96 W on August 30th 2005 @ 19:14 |
Ship's Log:
Tuesday August 30, 2005
Sure enough, Tuesday we awoke to pouring rain... we had breakfast and started to deal with the harsh realities of returning to life on land.
First order of business, retrieve the bottles of wine from the cellar and pack them for the trip home... I pulled the cushions from the v-berth, removed the access panels to the locker below and started pulling out bottles waiting to find broken shards amongst those that remained whole (remember all the lifting and slamming down of the waves?) to my surprise, not a single bottle was lost!
Rocinante was in a state of turmoil, her lovely cabin was strewn with "stuff" as we pulled items from their designated spots deep in the bowels of the ship (ok, the various settee lockers) and started to pack them. For the entire day, every break in the downpours was accompanied by a mad dash across the floating dock and up the gangway hauling our unused provisions to the awaiting SUV... slowly, but surely, we made progress and Rocinante rose up out of the water un-laden of her excess cargo.
Link to pictures of rain drenched East Dennis...
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/svrocinante/rain.jpg
Next was "Dapple"... what a nightmare!
Between Maria and I, we managed to empty the rainwater that collected in our tender and dragged her (I think she´s a "her") onto the floating dock... we spent the next 30 minutes scrubbing her clean and deflating her in the pouring rain. When the rains finally subsided, at least for a while, we quickly emptied her again, dried her off as best we could, folded her up, wrapped her in her storage bag, hauled her up on deck and strapped her down for her winter’s nap.
By the time nightfall came, we where exhausted; we had just un-stowed, packed, hauled up a huge incline (low tide meant a 12ft climb from the floating docks up said gangway) and loaded into the SUV several hundred pounds worth of provisions!
We crashed and slept...
Till next time,
Carlos & Maria
SV Rocinante..._/)
Sure enough, Tuesday we awoke to pouring rain... we had breakfast and started to deal with the harsh realities of returning to life on land.
First order of business, retrieve the bottles of wine from the cellar and pack them for the trip home... I pulled the cushions from the v-berth, removed the access panels to the locker below and started pulling out bottles waiting to find broken shards amongst those that remained whole (remember all the lifting and slamming down of the waves?) to my surprise, not a single bottle was lost!
Rocinante was in a state of turmoil, her lovely cabin was strewn with "stuff" as we pulled items from their designated spots deep in the bowels of the ship (ok, the various settee lockers) and started to pack them. For the entire day, every break in the downpours was accompanied by a mad dash across the floating dock and up the gangway hauling our unused provisions to the awaiting SUV... slowly, but surely, we made progress and Rocinante rose up out of the water un-laden of her excess cargo.
Link to pictures of rain drenched East Dennis...
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/svrocinante/rain.jpg
Next was "Dapple"... what a nightmare!
Between Maria and I, we managed to empty the rainwater that collected in our tender and dragged her (I think she´s a "her") onto the floating dock... we spent the next 30 minutes scrubbing her clean and deflating her in the pouring rain. When the rains finally subsided, at least for a while, we quickly emptied her again, dried her off as best we could, folded her up, wrapped her in her storage bag, hauled her up on deck and strapped her down for her winter’s nap.
By the time nightfall came, we where exhausted; we had just un-stowed, packed, hauled up a huge incline (low tide meant a 12ft climb from the floating docks up said gangway) and loaded into the SUV several hundred pounds worth of provisions!
We crashed and slept...
Till next time,
Carlos & Maria
SV Rocinante..._/)
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