The Ship's Log

July 28: We’ve Reached Our Destination!

Logged on Friday July 30, 2010

DATE:  28 JUL 2010

TIME:  1630

OBSERVATIONS: Sunday morning before we left Bayfield after a lovely breakfast hosted by the Duluth Power Squadron. We set sail for Madeline Island. Underway we made lanyards to hold our water bottles while we hiked. Some kept it simple with a braid or daisy chain, but others went all out complicated (crown sennits or monkey’s fists). We arrived at Madeline Island by small boat in the marina. From there we went to the Madeline Island Maritime History Museum. There we watched a movie about the European settlement of the Apostle Islands, mainly by the French. After the movie we walked around the museum and saw a lot of animal pelts (some of us felt good about it some not so much). Peter gave an opera of the movie we watched beforehand, it was hilarious! Then we went outside the museum where we saw a guy who was dressed up as aFrench and Native American mix. He taught us how to dance historically, but he had a very outdated wardrobe. Then we walked a beautiful 10 mile hike across the island to Big Bay where the ship met us. No one knew Wisconsin could get that hot!  We got shuttled back to the boat, swam in the bay then ate cheeseburgers for dinner. For anchor watch that night Jess made us lovely, delicious, chocolatley brownies for a snack.

On Monday we went bird watching early in the morning with Peter. We saw a crow, a great blue heron, two cormorants, a flicker woodpecker, then some sparrows, and a lot of squirrels. After the bird watching we went rowing with Zack in the lagoon. We saw a mama turtle with a baby turtle. When we got close the mama turtle pushed her baby off the log into the water and then went in after it. When we got back we had grilled cheese and tomato soup. After lunch we went to Raspberry Island. Abby, Katie, and Scott came up with a maritime version of “Yee-haw” (a game we play) called “Heave-Ho”. We had pork tenderloin, fluffy mashed potatoes, and corn for dinner. We swam off the boat and it was epic and very very very cold! For an anchor watch snack that night we had epic blueberry pie made with the blueberries that we picked in Bayfield.

On Tuesday, we went exploring on Raspberry Island. Captain came with us and he made us run through the woods on a trail that ended at a beach. After the trail, we went on a tour of the old lighthouse there that was built in 1863. It cost $6,000. When we arrived back on the boat, we had samosas for lunch and then left for Sand Island. We had a good sail and finished reading Captain’s Courageous. Dinner was really a treat, Jess prepared conch West Indian style with rice, black beans and salad. Since we finished the book, we were able to watch Captain’s Courageous the movie, made in 1937. Let’s just say it wasn’t like the book.

Now we are underway on our way to Duluth, MN. To pass the time, we had a deckhand olympics where we were timed and judged on our coils and ballantines. We also made turk’s heads bracelets. Now we’re going to climb the shrouds and it will be awesome.

WATCH MEMBERS:
Capt. Dwight Deckleman
Emily Selinger
Evan Parnell
Kai Bartlette
Josh Winckel
William Wampler

July 25: The Intensely Awesome Town of Bayfield

Logged on Wednesday July 28, 2010

DATE: July 25, 2010

TIME: 10: 50 AM

OBSERVATIONS: After a very long five days on the lakes, we finally arrived in the town they call Bayfield. When we arrived in port, we started our usual deck wash. During the deck wash the local camera man recorded us putting in a full effort. When the deck was complete, we disembarked off the the ship and all  of us had a minor case of sea legs. We started exploring the City of Bayfield, and we found an open patch of grass to play an epic game of Ultimate Frisbee. Mid-way through the game a native of Bayfield gave us some ice cream and hot fudge. After we all ate the delicious vanilla ice cream and hot fudge we continued playing our epic game of Ultimate Frisbee. In the last second the game was finally decided the team of William, Kyle, Scott, Kimoy, and Kelsey was victorious.

Since we were not allowed to take showers because of water conservation we were all very stinky, and we were overjoyed to take showers! After showers we read two long chapters of Captins Corageous. At the end of the second chapter there was a french song which our crew member Paul sang. It was a hilarious sight to see, we wish you all could’ve been there. After an extremely exciting day of exploring the awesome City of Bayfield we felt complete, and then we retired for the night into our bunks.

When we came out of retirerment, we wandered over to the local Farmers market, and we met some of the people and learned all about there crops. After this we went to Good Earth Gardens and we meet the super nice owners, Lana and Larry, and introduced ourselves and we learned the rule of blueberry picking “One for the mouth! One for the Pale!”. We went blueberry picking and in total we all picked 40 lbs. of blueberries. Then Lana and Larry gave us homemade apple cider and  we sat under the apple tree and had lunch. Then we got to go hiking through the forest and saw nature firsthand. Then Lana gave us a ride to Flying Snakes Farm. Where we got see many differnt types of animals including pigs, piglets, chickens, turkeys, gesse, ducks, dogs, goats, bulls and cows. Our faviorte animals were Cpt. Kirk the Pig, King the Dawg, and Ricardo the Turkey. We got a tour of the farm and some of us got to have a ride in the tractor (Josh, Kyle, William, and Jason). We made the epic Cpt. Kirk bob for apples and it was an insanely hilarious sight to see. William and the whole gang of Roseway got to hold a chicken, caught by Jason. After a long stinky day at the farm we took amazing showers and got a private tour of the U.S Coast Guard Boat “Sundew”. The boat was 180 ft. and made of steel. All in all the City of Bayfield  was insanely epicly intensely awesomely awesome!

WATCH MEMBERS: William Wampler, Kyle Murphy, and Jaleesah Bess

July 22: It’s Superior in Lake Superior

Logged on Sunday July 25, 2010

DATE: 7/22/10

TIME: 2000

OBSERVATIONS:
This is 5th day of transit and it’s been great! Because we sleep on and off throughout the day it’s quite hard to keep track of dates. Two nights ago we anchored in a smallish bay called Whitefish bay. We were really glad we had decided to anchor because a rarther large lighting storm came our way, unfortunately because of the lightening we were not able to go swiming. Instead we played games in the fishhold. Throughout the night we were divided into different watch teams, rotating every hour and a half. Jess as always made us a fantastic night watch snack; blondey, peanutbutter-chocolate, cookie/brownie thing, that was delicious! During our watch we have to check the anchor and be sure it’s not dragging, we also have to use a compass and measure the angle between us and four lights on land that the captain chose based on our position when we first dropped anchor. this allows us to see how much we have driffeded over the course of the night.

Last night our watch, b watch, was on from midnight untill 4am and it was freezing! Jason, Kelsey and Eden all saw many shooting stars; while Kelsey was at the helm the red lights on the compass were starting to give her a head ache, so with the help of our watch leader Peter a few stars were picked out to help her stay right on chorse of 275. Around 0240am, simply by chance Eden noticed a very very large tanker on the radar system. We tracked it and collected valuble information on the tanker: speed, course and most importantly it’s distance form us. Once close enough it was impossible to miss this ship, the light’s were so bright it looked like the side of a cruise ship. Only one problem we were not seeing the side of this tanker, instead we were looking it straight on. we did more calculations with the radar system and found out that we were on a collision course with this monstrosity. first he sped up and still that wasn’t enough in the end we had to cut our engines, so he could cross our bow safely. Fortunately our watch was over pretty much as soon as the drama this ship had caused was cleared.

We are now in lake Superior! Yay!!! It’s even colder now that it was earlier during anchor watch. There are no big waves here like we are used to back home in the VI, but there is still a fair amount of top chop – whenever there’s wind (sadly not right now).The area we are sailing through right now is also frequently used by the Navy, we thought we were seeing a Laker; basicaly like an air craft carrier only smaller. we also were not sure if it was stationary so Kelsey was sent up on to the bow-sprit with a pair of binoculars to figure this out. It ended up that it wasn’t a Laker it was a very big tanker. But still Kelsey was very happy to be on the bow-sprit, I want to say it’s like flying but it’s not it’s more like what I imagine riding on the back of a whale to be like. Currently Jason and Kelsey are sitting on the cabin top watching the sunset while we write. (Now Peter wants us to do a boat check).

WATCH MEMBERS: Jason Ayala, Kelsey Morrison, Eden Leonard, Tanner Tillotson and Peter Flint

July 21: Lake Superior, Here we Are!

Logged on Wednesday July 21, 2010

DATE:  20 JUL 2010
TIME:  1735

OBSERVATIONS: The last day and a half since we left Bay City, MI has been really busy.  Kai enjoys the four hour watches way better than the six hour watches she did last year. She also found Evan’s explanation of the meaning of his name hilarious (noble warrior priest of the forest?!). Jess is like the best cook ever! For breakfast this morning, Jess made french toast covered in honey bunches of oats. Pure genius! She also likes to play music while she’s in the galley. SO far she’s played Otis Redding and Bob Marley.

Josh and Kimoy like the peacefulness of bow watch and the responsibility of keeping the boat safe. We all enjoy steering the ship. Kimoy doesn’t really like steering the ship because he feels like he will get us lost. However, Kai and Josh like steering the boat because they’re both really good at staying on course.

Plotting our position is really cool because we get to find out exactly where we are on the chart.  The satisfaction we get from crossing the latitude and longitude lines is great.  Estimating our arrival time at a given destination based on our plot is very interesting.

On our 4:00am to 8:00am watch, we were dodging a lighting storm that was on our port side. It looked like a huge claw in the sky illuminated by the lightning.  The sunrise was nice and beautiful and looked like a fresh painting.  All of the colors were wonderful: orange, pink, yellow, purple, and blue.

After the early watch, we had a really good nap.  After lunch we went through a really cool lock that had a lot of people waiting to watch us go through. We rose about fifty feet in the lock along with a tourist boat that was going through as well. Kai took pictures of people taking pictures of us.  There were some cool islands and seriously large birds. We traveled up St. Mary’s river and now we’re anchored for the night and ready for a long sleep.

WATCH MEMBERS:
Capt. Dwight Deckleman
Paul Martin
Evan Parnell
Kai Bartlette
Josh Winckel
Kimoy Christopher

July 19: Roseway Students Take Bay City by Storm

Logged on Monday July 19, 2010

We have arrived at the ship.  Our flights were decent but were a little bumpy going into Michigan and delay in Atlanta for some of us.  The weather was cloudy so we couldn’t see out the window.  Our first impressions were similar we thought the crew and the other students were awesome and we were super excited when we saw the boat for the first time.  We made values of the Roseway which included Respect, Honesty, Friendship, Teamwork, Communication and Trust.  Instantly we felt that we had a responsibility to work hard and be dedicated to the Roseway and the World Ocean School.

The first act of community service we performed was volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club of Bay City, Michigan.  When we first arrived some of us played basketball with the kids while others hung out in the teen and game room with other kids.  Then we served the kids pizza and ate lunch with them.  During lunch, Kimoy, aka K Cris, one of the students from the Roseway, beat boxed, sang and danced.  He was surprisingly good and he gained a lot of fans.  After lunch we got to know the kids and had a lot of fun with them.

After the Boys & Girls Club we went to the Bay City Historical Society Musuem and Maritime Gallery. We learned about how the logging industry made Bay City.  We learned about skull islands and how it disappeared due to changing water levels, it had a lot of history because there was a battle between two native American tribes, there were only 12 survivors (all of which were women).  This is the reason that we can’t find it because we don’t want to invade Native American burial grounds.  The museum was great because we learned about the port we are in.

Over the past couple of days we visited Europa, Pride of Baltimore II, the Bounty, and the Roald Amundsen.  Some of our favorite ships were the Europa because it travels to Antartica 5 times a year, and the Roald Amundsen because it’s a symbol of the reuniting of East and West Germany and our tour guide is a current German Navy Officer (and has been for 30 years).

The Planetarium of Bay City was so awesome because we learned about how to travel by the stars and saw a cool promo of Space Park 360 technology.  We also go to go to the top of the Planetarium and had a great view of our home, the Roseway.

Another act of community service was volunteering at the festival making balloon animals and tying knots.  We liked making kids happy and seeing the smiles on kids faces when we gave them the balloon turtles and teaching them about wetlands and protecting water.

Our crew is so awesome.  Peter has great life lessons, Capt. Dwight is funny and a great leader; Jess is a great cook and has mad cooking skills; Tanner had good scary stories; Eden is a great leader and had fun activities; Paul has great taste in Movies; Zack is great at initiating us to clean the deck; Scott knows how to work the crowds; Katie is a good soccer player and is funny; Evan knows how to get the job done; and Abby is awesome, she gave us this opportunity.

Contributions by Kyle Murphy, Jason Ayala, Kimoy Christopher, and William Wampler

July 16: Summer Ambassadors Set Roseway’s Community Values

Logged on Friday July 16, 2010

Eight Summer Ambassadors arrived last night to begin their 16-day journey aboard Roseway. Students, ages 14-16, arrived from North Carolina, St. Thomas, and St. Croix to join the boat in Bay City, Michigan. Their first task was to determine the values they wanted to form the backbone of their Roseway Community:

RESPECT
-being mindful of others
-no rude comments
-treating everyone well
-not disturbing others
-respecting yourself

TEAMWORK
-cooperation
-helping each other
-supporting each other

FRIENDSHIP
-forming new bonds

HONESTY
-not lying
-being truthful
-not gossiping
-giving your full effort

TRUST
-not letting each other down
-always giving your all
-being trustworthy
-not betraying the trust of others

COMMUNICATION
-being clear
-listening
-paying attention

July 14: Project YESS – Watch C Ship Log

Logged on Wednesday July 14, 2010

DATE: 7/14/10

TIME: 15:05

OBSERVATIONS: In the last 24 hours we have done many exciting activities that we will remember for many years. When we came up for our  4:00 a.m to 8:00 a.m watch the boat was rocking, so we had to wear harnesses. At around 5:30 a.m we had a chance to see the sunrise and the sky was a beautiful mixture of pink and purple, and the dark clouds were slowly fading away. For many of us that was our first time seeing the sun rise. We also learned how to use the radar, which allowed us to see ships approaching that we couldn’t see with our own eyes. After our watch we ate oatmeal and raisins for breakfast, cleaned the soles and bowls, and learned how to scrub toilets. Then we worked as a team to raise the halyard of the Jib Sail as we made the turn towards Saginaw Bay. Later today we climbed out over the water on the bowsprit, which is the farthest point of the ship. One of our teammates worked on overcoming her fear of heights by participating in this activity. Another teammate had a weird experience of him sticking his hand in the head. In conclusion we would like to thank all of the crew members for making this a very wonderful experience that we will remember for a long time. Its funny how majority of the Earth is cover by water, but majority of the people don’t get to experience how life like on the water. Everyday people only get to experience the small minority of the Earth but never take the time out to experience the majority that lies out there, the water.

WATCH MEMBERS: Terrance Reynolds, Paul Yeager, Arlayna Lewis, Scott Deckelmann, Paul Martin, Zack Swick

July 14: Project YESS – Watch B Ship’s Log

Logged on Wednesday July 14, 2010

DATE: July 13, 2010

TIME: 1900

Casey climbed the rig of the Roseway all the way to the top, Augustina climed the rig about halfway to the top, and Nick climbed 2 steps up the rig today. The view was excellent from up on the rig, you could see Canada and the United States. You could see the roads on the United States, and the Canadian Side of the land, and you could see other tall ships, “Pride of Baltimore”, “Dennis Sullivan”, “Bounty”, small and personal boats, and carriers flowing down the Detroit River. We got up at around 4-5 o’ clock for anchor watch to hoist the anchor back onto the boat. Anchor watch is nice because you can watch the sun rise, watch the stars in the sky, and you get up from the heat inside the boat where they slept. On watch, we actually steer the boat on the helm, check the boat and see if there are any problems on the boat, or we lookout over the bow for oncoming boats or other obstacles. Afterwards, we learned about knots, and practiced them on deck with the other ship mates. Now, we have dropped out of the St. Clair river, and we are making our way through Lake Huron. We also went through Lake Erie, and Lake St. Clair. The food on the boat is amazing, and it’s very easy to sleep with the slight movement of the boat, and full stomachs.

WATCH MEMBERS: Casey Bishop, Mark VandenPlas, Augustina Odenbrett, Eden Leonard, Tanner Tillotson, Peter Flint, Nick Marson.

DATE: July 13, 2010

TIME: 1900

OBSERVATIONS: Not sea state and such, but rather description of the day, things that are weird, things that are awesome, things that inspired. Be creative. Write observations about things that are unique, different, exciting, etc.

WATCH MEMBERS: Casey Bishop, Mark VandenPlas, Augustina Odenbrett, Eden Leonard, Tanner Tillotson, Peter Flint, Nick Marson.

Casey climbed the rig of the Roseway all the way to the top, Augustina climed the rig about halfway to the top, and Nick climbed 2 steps up the rig today. The view was excellent from up on the rig, you could see Canada and the United States. You could see the roads on the United States, and the Candian Side of the land, and you could see other tall ships, “Pride of Baltimore”, “Dennis Sullivan”, “Bounty”, small and personal boats, and carriers flowing down the Detroit River. We got up at around 4-5 o’ clock for anchor watch to hoist the anchor back onto the boat. Anchor watch is nice because you can watch the sun rise, watch the stars in the sky, and you get up from the heat inside the boat where they slept. On watch, we actually steer the boat on the helm, check the boat and see if there are any problems on the boat, or we lookout over the bow for oncoming boats or other obstacles. Afterwards, we learned about knots, and practiced them on deck with the other ship mates. Now, we have dropped out of the St. Clair river, and we are making our way through Lake Huron. We have also went through Lake Erie, and Lake St. Clair. The food on the boat is amazing, and it’s very easy to sleep with the slight movement of the boat, and full stomachs.

July 13: Project YESS – Watch A Ship Log

Logged on Tuesday July 13, 2010

DATE: July 12, 2010

TIME:1925

OBSERVATIONS: Today we learned a lot of things while on our watch we observed the compartments of the boat, how to lookout for thing on the water, navigation how to plot Lat & Long. and how to find where we are. Learned how to drive the Roseway and how to actually use a compass and see how the crew do their daily routines and they taught us the different sails. And Jess the cook on the boat made the most BANGIN’ food EVER!!! And Katie, Evan, and the Capt. are soooo coool and they taught us things about the boat that we never knew……..looking forward to this trip and its just day one 1/2 :)

WATCH MEMBERS:

Brenna Byrd
Shawnetta Stephens
Edward Long
Bryan Miller
Katie Giuliano
Evan Parnell
Capt. Dwight Deckelmann