Seas of Peace

In the previous 24 hours, we met the schooner Lady Maryland and saluted her with our cannon. We also had Dialogue. It was the second to last session, so it was hard for everyone to accept the fact that in 48 hours we would be saying goodbyes. After Dialogue, we welcomed people from Isles of [...]

B Watch started off the day with the sunrise. At 0700 we all woke up and it was all-hands to breakfast. We spent most of the morning sailing, then anchored at Appledore Island in the Isles of Shoals, right along the border of Maine and New Hampshire. All of us Seeds went from our boat [...]

At noon today we left Boothbay Harbor with a newly-filled diesel tank. We spent the morning preparing to leave and having Dialogue. We do not yet know how far we will sail today due to the possibility of inclement weather. After setting sail, we resumed our JWO program, with each watch, Seeds are faced with [...]

It is almost midnight and we, the first night watch, are crouching under a rain jacket trying to keep the blog paper dry. We started the Junior Watch Officer or JWO system. The JWO is a camper who is in charge of the ship for two hours, helping the crew assign tasks and ensuring the [...]

This morning at around 0900, The Spirit left her anchorage in Somes Sound. With our mainsail, foresail, forestaysail, jib, and, for the first time, the main topsail set we headed out for Boothbay Harbor. This marks the Seas of Peace first day of full 24-hour watches, having anchored previous nights. The day, though low on [...]

Everybody woke up to the voice of rain covering the boat, encouraging us to put on more clothes and be ready for all-hands-on-deck to clean. After breakfast, we broke into watches to do the morning chores. Later, after hauling back the anchor, we returned to our watches to listen to our mates and deckhands teach [...]