SUMMER VOYAGE 2004
Ship Reports & Trivia

Trivia

Why is a bathroom on a vessel called a "head"?

Yesterday's  Answer:
Agents used to extinguish different classes of fires:

Class "A" - Water
Class "B" - Foam, Dry Chemical
Class "C" - CO2
Class "D" - Special powder or jettison the cargo if possible.

This morning was very cloudy and looked like another day of rain. Cadets could not shoot stars this morning. Due to the weather, cadets have been doing work inside the ship. This summer, we have had our share of rough and rainy weather. Later, this morning the weather improved.

In seamanship class, cadets practiced tying knots and then working with the ship's lines on the stem. Afterwards, the cadets practiced throwing heaving lines off the stern, Cadets English, Toth, and Smythe did an excellent job of throwing the heaving lines off the stern.

Cadet Laborde has been doing an outstanding job navigating on watch. Today he shot LAN and a sunline, when he advanced the sunline to LAN (local apparent noon) he was one mile off the GPS position. According to Cadet Laborde, the ship's GPS has an error of one mile.

This afternoon, cadets are on deck using a wire wheel to remove rust, applying primer and then painting. On the flvbridge, Cadets Grusich and Miller have been sanding the ship's name boards and repainting the letters yellow. They are doing a splendid job.

Today at 1500, the weekly safety meeting was held with all crew members in the cadet mess.

Over half of the engineers have completed their rotation on bridge watch. The engine cadets have enjoyed their two watches on the bridge and the deck cadets have been very excited about teaching the engine cadets. The engine cadets have steered for one hour, stood lookout for one hour, were given short lessons on weather faxes, navigation, radars, ECDIS, GPS, required to use a sextant and shoot the sun or stars, do an azimuth, etc. The last group of engineers will stand bridge watch this Sunday.

We are rolling moderately in a quartering sea.



Captain S. Stephenson