Ships Log: August 25

Monday evening ship's log from B watch.

Over the past two days we've traveled from the Kennebec River where Harvey Gamage anchored off of Maine Maritime Museum, where students boarded, to Burnt Island on the way to the Herring Gut marine science center. 

On the evening of our first night, a rousing game of Bonanza took place. Beans.

Today, we saw a whale!

"I've got a sunburn," says one of students who wishes to remain anonymous, and has probably learned from his mistake. He did, in fact, bring sunscreen and will now be using it.

In summarizing what it has been like to live aboard, a few of the students shared some comments: "Ok, so I have a very noisy bunk." and "The bunk next to mine sounds like an owl at all hours of the night."

The students summarized Monday as windy and very rocky and would not recommend. "I fed the fish," one reports. However, a contrasting report was, "The fishes remain starved. No fishes were fed in these first two days. And the fishes will not be fed again." Despite all, they rallied through and smile again.

Crew and students worked together to haul back the anchor and set all five of our sails.

This afternoon's bow watch, we observed too many dang lobster traps.

Conducting a jib furl in funny voices made the job fun, and it was done fantastically. 

At our next anchorage near Burnt Island, students and crew took a trip ashore to explore the tide pools and swim at the beach. There, we picked lots of seaweed. 

"I think the food here is good, and also even though this whole trip is kind of out of my comfort zone, i am having a really good and fun time !!" a student says. Another adds that the seaweed tastes awesome.

Overall two thumbs up and two thumbs middle from B watch. On average a 4/5 day.