The Arctic Schooner Bowdoin by K. A. Beals

Author:K. A. Beals [Beals, K. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781608937646
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2021-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

Furthermore, an excellent training use of the Bowdoin’s usual

east coast transits each spring and fall from Maine to Norfolk, Virginia, as the schooner wintered over at the Chesapeake Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, was to bring Outward Bound staff aboard for informal sailing and as extra crew. We had done this between the Chesapeake Bay and New York City in the spring of 1988, and after our New York based programs were done, we invited the New York Outward Bound staff for the leg to Boston’s Thompson Island. Unfortunately, after our guest crew departed in Boston, we still planned an additional trip to make a visit to Admiral MacMillan’s home in Provincetown.

In thick fog, and with fewer than the ideal number of crew members, we managed the trip to meet some of the local residents. The Provincetown Museum had put the word out to come see the schooner and we didn’t want to cancel, so with our newly donated radar, we came out of the fog to hear a few hearty folks welcome us with applause, delighted to see the schooner again.

We didn’t stay long, as we needed to get back to Boston. With building seas and northerly winds, we determined that a reach across Massachusetts Bay to Duxbury was far better than beating to windward or motoring into the winds. With only three of us as deck crew, we were relieved to tuck into Duxbury’s harbor and wait it out. We were glad to have made the Provincetown trip on this voyage north and still make it to Boston for our next spring programs.18

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