0700 hours

Jon reports to the galley to help Mrs. Barton and Mrs. Lawler prepare breakfast for everyone.

 

0730 hours

Before we can eat, however, we want to catch the flood tide as we return up the Hudson. Thus, we need to get under way.

 

Our student crew is now well practiced at weighing the anchor, and we're off and away in no time.

 

0800 hours

With Esther standing lookout, we start motoring across New York Harbor, back toward the city.

0815 hours

Everyone enjoys a hot breakfast of French toast and sausages.

 

Some crew members don't seem to have quite woken up yet, however. Here, Kaeli is being congratuated for pouring coffee on her French toast, having mistaken it for syrup.

 

0900 hours

Current Position:Motoring north toward George Washington Bridge
(Readings not recorded)

As Mr. Dawson treats the upper decks to one more deck wash, we pause just south of the George Washington Bridge for a photo op, giving the students one more chance to set the sails.

After that excitement, the educators gather the students on the orlop deck to discuss the final stages of their team presentations.

The students will need to present their initial hypotheses, to be able to discuss the instruments and procedures they used to test it, to graph their data, and to conclude whether or not their research supported their initial hypothesis.

1200 hours

Current Position:Holding position off the Pallisades
Latitude: 40˚ 58.085'
Longitude: 073˚ 53.879'

We pause for a final round of water sample collections.

Kaeli and Jon coordinate their efforts to operate the Van Dorn sampler; both need to collect water samples from beneath the river's surface.

 

1230 hours

We're soon underway again, and it's time for a good, old-fashioned lunch of franks and beans.

 

1315 hours

Mr. Weisse stands at lookout as we continue upriver.

 

The students, meanwhile, have retreated to the orlop deck to make the final prepareations for their presentations.

1400 hours

Robert's experiment requires him to take water samples of different salinity, then heat them in the sun, so he's been continuing to collect data all day today. He's now taking his final reading; from here, it's off to construct his graph and prepare his final report.

 

Meanwhile, we've reached our destination for the day: Haverstraw Bay, just off the town of Haverstraw itself.

 

1500 hours

Current Position:Anchored in Haverstraw Bay
Latitude: 41˚ 10.611'
Longitude: 073˚ 54.503'

From our new anchorage point, nearly within sight of our destination tomorrow morning, we can see densely overcast skies rolling northward toward our position. This is the last we'll see of the sun for several days.

1600 hours

The students have no completed all the work for their presentations. With an hour still to go, they clean the orlop deck and stow their gear in preparation for tomorrow's departure.

 

1700 hours

At last, we reach the moment the students have been working toward throughout their Voyage of Discovery: delivering their educational presentations.

Everyone gathers on the weather deck to see the results of our student crew's hard work.

 

We hear from the water team first. Michael leads the way, with his analysis of whether wind speed affects current speed. You'll be able to see more details for each student's findings on our Presentations page, so check back for updates.

 

After the students deliver their presentations, we open the floor (or should we say deck?) for questions from Captain Reynolds and the rest of the adult and student crew.

1945 hours

After breaking for dinner, we reconvene to hear the rest of the weather team presentations. A chilly, gusting wind has started blowing in from the south, so we decide to shift our activities down to the orlop deck, where everyone's presence keeps us toasty warm.

 

Once everyone is present, we hear from Rebecca B., Zora (here discussing relative wind speeds measured at different heights), Rebecca V., and last but not least, Kaeli.

 

2045 hours

After the presentations have all been delivered, Kaeli has one more thing to add. Yesterday, Dr. Jacobs had the students study the crabs in our aquarium; Kaeli can now announce that she has identified the species of one of them: a green crab.

With that, the presentations are done and the pressure is off. The students use the final hour before lights out to update their journals and simply relax as they enjoy their their last night on board.

 

 

On this date in 1609:

The thirteenth, faire weather, the wind Northerly. At seven of the clocke in the morning, as the floud came we weighed, and turned foure miles into the River. The tide being done we anchored. Then there came foure Canoes aboord: but we suffered none of them to come into our ship. They brought great store of very good Oysters aboord, which we bought for trifles. In the night I set the variation on the Compasse, and found it to be 13. degrees. In the after-noone we weighed, and turned in with the floud, two leages and a halfe further, and anchored all night, and had five fathoms soft Ozie ground, and had an high point of Land, which shewed to us, bearing North by East five leagues off us.

-- Robert Juet's Journal.