Castine to Barcelona
Sunday, 07 May Day 10 Daily Log Voyage # 0106
CAPTAIN'S LOG We are currently about 3 days West of the Azores! As part of our training we endeavor to teach and demonstrate products that a Mariner would find in use on ship's today. One such product that we have used for a number of years now is a commercial weather advisory service. We do not actually use the advising part of the service but we rely heavily on the graphics, daily weather updates, voyage planning and tracking features. We also use this program back at the Academy. The program is donated to us, as is the data that is sent to us twice a day. It is pretty neat to be able to animate a 10 day weather forecast for the students to view. We are indebted to WNI OceanRoutes which is the marine division of WeatherNews Inc. for supplying us with their Orion Pro product. Maintenance is another daily function except during "Holiday" routines which are spread out so that we have (4) four during our 60 days. The first is scheduled for next Friday, the 12th. ENGINE MAINTENANCE Check out our Question and Answer page.
Daily Cruise Statistics
Position at 1200 Local Time (LT) Zone Description -3 hours Lat. 39-50.5 N Long. 053-02.9 W Noon to noon (or Departure to Noon or Noon to Arrival): Distance: 391.4 Nmiles Time run: 23 hrs 00 min Average Speed. 17.0 Kts Total passage distance: 806.1 Nmiles (to date) Total passage Time: 02 Days 00 Hours 54 Minutes Total Average Speed: 16.5 Kts ETA Barcelona Spain 16 May 06 at 0700 Local time
Today's Activities
Training Company: Maintenance Company: Utility Company: Duty (Watch) Company:	Bravo Charlie Delta Alpha
Weather
Wind: S'ly 10 Knots Sea: Slmall S'ly Swell: Low Confused S'ly Sky: Mostly sun with fair weather clouds Temperature: 68 Air 69 Sea Synopsis: High Pressure Ridge


PHOTO's
Nice day yesterday and a pretty evening. The Bosses! Watch engineer making rounds & Oil Fired Boiler project Recording readings and taking soundings of tanks. Lathe work and general maintenance Area where start air compressors used to be....now it's a highway to the machine shop. Lots of interest in what's going on and muster taking.
Notes:
Barcelona Info: (Maine Boat Builders) Barcelona Weather site: http://www.bcn.es/temps/english/ MED Weather: http://www.eurometeo.com/english/meteomar/id_2 Barcelona Port Information (Fairplay) Gdynia Info: Cobh Info: (Info about U.S. $100 Bills) Portland Info: Portland/Castine Excursion: Rockland to Castine the day we arrive back at our home berth has been designated as a possible "excursion day". The U.S. Coast Guard has been asked to grant us a permit to take extra persons on board above our vessels certification. To do this we have to have certain lifesaving procedures and equipment on board. Accordingly the numbers we can take are strictly limited. We, of necessity, have limited our guests to 2 persons per upper class student on cruise (immediate family members only) plus official MMA invitees and crew member guests. We can not offer more because we do not have the lifesaving capability. Also this is always a tentative adventure which because of weather, security, operational difficulties etc. may be cancelled up to the last moment. The security issue is becoming a big item in how we offer and execute these excursions, so for those who are planning to attend please be patient with the necessary procedures. Schooner BOWDOIN Summer Cruise Itinerary: 01 June Underway Castine 03 June Brown's Bank 06 June Sable Island (weather permitting, if not we may stop on the way back) 08 June Strait of Canso 09 June Charlottetown PEI 11 June Summerside, PEI 14 June Isle de Magdeline 17 June Bras D'Or Lakes, Beddeck, NS 24 June Lunenburg NS 30 June Castine
Tally
*Cruise mileages:* Castine to Barcelona Barcelona to Gdynia Gdynia to Cobh Cobh to Portland Portland to Castine TOTAL Cruise Mileage:		3500 Nautical Miles (Estimated) 2690 Nautical Miles (Estimated) 1375 Nautical Miles (Estimated) 2675 Nautical Miles (Estimated) 90 Nautical Miles (Estimated) 10,330 Nautical Miles (Estimated)