Trivia

Approximately, where is the pivot point located on a ship that is making headway or making sternway?

Yesterday's  Answer:

Fish oil is used to calm the seas.  Each lifeboat has fish oil aboard in order to calm the seas.

Today Cadets Glines and Sacra have been the navigators on watch.  For practice, they have been shooting the sun and plotting their sunlines on the chart to determine our position.  Many of the senior and junior cadets have completed their star days at this point and are now working on passing blinker light.

Today in class, junior cadets learned new knots and practiced splicing lines together.  In seamanship class cadets practiced lowering themselves from the top of the hanger to the flight deck in a boson's chair.

Maintenance detail has included incinerating trash and touching up the ship with paint for our arrival into San Juan.  The ship will be fully dressed with flags from the bow (front) to the stern (back).

We will be off San Juan early Thursday morning, and will be approximately three miles off the coast for the cadets to practice terrestrial navigation.  On Friday morning, we will proceed into San Juan and expect to be alongside the dock at 0900.



Captain S. Stephenson