Blogs from the SSV Corwith Cramer
Good Morning
Author: Riley, B Watch Ship's Log Saturday, 28 October, 2023Noon Position: 33°02.47’N X 071°13.98’WShip Heading (degrees): 302°Ship Speed: 4 knotsLog: 1963 nmWeather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change): Warm weather and sailing until we no longer could and we had to motor. Withforce 4 winds coming from [...]
Stu Stu Day in the Sargasso Sea
Author: Lily K., C Watch Ship's Log Friday, October, 27 2023Ship Heading: 320°pscShip Speed: 6.5knLog: 1883nmWeather / Wind / Sail Plan: Partial cloudy, wind force 5 out of NNE, sailing under all 5 lower sailsDescription of location: Sargasso Sea Today was a rather irregular day aboard the [...]
Another Beautiful Day in Heavy Weather
Author: Cade W., C Watch Ship's Log Thursday, October, 26, 2023Partially cloudy, Force 6-7 wind, Sailing under the staysails and the main on a starboard tackSargasso Sea It's hard to encapsulate a day on the Cramer because everyone's day isalways so different, but I will describe [...]
Bermuda Arrival
Author: Emma H., A Watch Ship's Log Tuesday, October 24, 2023Log: 1540 nmWeather: Spotty squalls, strong wind, warm water and ice cream.Description of location: St. George's Bay, Bermuda After a challenging week of sailing through intense weather, it was soexciting when we heard Whistler say "Land [...]
Underway Once Again
Author: Ian R., A Watch Ship's Log Wednesday, October 25, 2023Noon Position: Lat: 32°10.7’N and Long: 064°52.1’WShip Heading: 225°Ship Speed: 6.5 kLog: 1570 nm Weather: Today is sunny with a chance of some showers. We have a steady force 7 atour backs, and it is looking like a beautiful day to [...]
Secret Secchi Dish Mission
Author: Liam M., B Watch Ship's Log Friday, 20th October, 2023 Noon Position: 36 deg 26.1' N x 063 deg 48.7' WShip Heading (degrees): 195Ship Speed (knots): 5.3 knotsLog (nm): 1175 steering 195Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change): Light and variablewinds build to BF 4 and [...]
Blogs from the SSV Robert C. Seamans
Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again!
Author: Amelia Lang, C Watch, Barnard College Ship's Log Tuesday, 2 April (again) Noon Position (Lat and Long): 42°18.12’S x 175°62.70’W Ship Heading (degrees): 116° Ship Speed (knots): 3.5 Taffrail Log (nm): 574.7 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change): Light winds from the North East, sailing under [...]
What’s with all the birds?
Author: Elaina Berdyck, Northeastern University Ship's Log Tuesday, 2 April 2024 Noon Position (Lat and Long): 42°16.8’S x 178°52.5’W Ship Heading (degrees): 065 Ship Speed (knots): 6.5 Taffrail Log (nm): 413.13 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change): Motor sailing @ 1,000RPM under the four lowers Description [...]
What is Freedom?
Author: Eleftheria-Sofia Dragoti, B Watch, College of the Atlantic Ship's Log Monday, 1 April 2024 Noon Position: 42°57.5’S x 178°26.7’E Ship Heading (degrees): 060 Ship Speed (knots): 6.5 Taffrail Log (nm): 328.2 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change): Stratocumulus, SxE Beaufort 3, Sailing under the four [...]
Ocean 360
Author: Aronah Swartz, C Watch, College of the Atlantic Ship's Log Sunday, March, 31, 2024 Noon Position (Lat and Long): 43°13.0’S x 175°53.8’E Ship Heading (degrees): 060 Ship Speed (knots): 7 knots Taffrail Log (nm): 153.3 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan: Altostratus clouds / SEx S Beafort 4/ Sailing [...]
S-314, Marine Biodiversity & Conservation, Sets Sail
Author: Dr. Sarah Kingston, Chief Scientist Ship's Log Saturday, March 30, 2024 Noon Position (Lat and Long): 43'20.85's 174'21.8'E Ship Heading (degrees): 100 Ship Speed (knots): 5 kts Taffrail Log (nm): 75 Weather / Wind / Sail Plan (from 1300 Watch Change): 10 kts and sunny. Sailing under the [...]
Mostly Brooke Levan, kinda Cam Ragland.
Author: Ship's Log March 19, 2024 Position: Anchored near Lyttelton Harbour The lack of blog posts these past few days has been a direct result of the energy poured into so many intense areas of shipboard life recently. Apologies to the folks at home. As the program [...]
Blogs from the SEA Campus
Good times at SEA
Solange Gerdeman We woke a half an hour earlier than normal—7:30 instead of 8—to prepare for our field trip to the Woods Hole Oceanagraphic Institute Marine Biological Laboratory. We were to meet with Molly, a marine engineer at the Institute. Our breakfast was the same as usual: a smorsgasbord of breakfast foods [...]
How We Acquired 15 Gallons of Popcorn (and Whale Watching)
Christoph Kershaw - Bedford High School & Melissa Giacobbe - Metea Valley High School Unfortunately, today we were woken up at 6:00, but by the end of the day our SEA group had acquired 15 gallons of popcorn, some insane whale experiences, and a first hand look at a [...]
A Day in the Life
Graham McCarthy and Isa Roth Today's wakeup time was 8:00 and after breakfast we started our day with watch meetings. After meeting with our watches and doing our respective chores everyone gathered in Madden for oceanography. In oceanography we did a mock convention creating posters and writing articles supporting [...]
Heat Wave Subsiding!
Leif Thesen and Calvin Chiu Today we woke up at our normal time, 8 am and had a wide variety of things for breakfast. It was the first cool night on campus, so everyone was well rested. After our watch meetings, we set off to our first class [...]
New Bedford Whaling Museum Day Out
By Harper Greenfield Oakwood Secondary School and Jimmy Shen Culver Academy Today we had an early start to our day with a quick breakfast at the picnic tables. A bus promptly pulled up to campus, and we were taken down to the museum. The ride was around forty-five [...]
An Informative Day on Campus
Anika Mootha – Greenhill School & Caroline Mostofizadeh- Palo Alto High School Today we started the day off with Karen’s oceanography class where we covered chemical oceanography and participated in the Carbon Molecule Activity. During this activity, we took on the role of a carbon atom as it cycled through the [...]