0700 hours

Starting Position: Anchored off the Palisades, near Yonkers, NY.
Latitude: 40 ˚ 57.9' N
Longitude: 073˚ 54.4'

Day Six of the first leg of our 2009 Fall Voyage of Discovery.

We'll post the full log later, but until then here's a preview of our day.

As we started our first full day on the Hudson River, we encountered something we can barely remember ever seeing before: blue skies!

The ship remained at anchor for most of the day, allowing for a flood of promotions in the students' Crew Rating ranks. By the end of the day, Joram had become our first official Watch Captain (Kwartiermeester).

After a voyage-long discussion on how to incorporate a true presentation project into this leg of the voyage, the senior crew educators finally struck upon a solution: the entire student crew would collaborate on a single mechanical advantage experiment, delivering a group presentation on their results tomorrow.

In the afternoon, we weighed anchor yet again, continuing north for the short trip from the Palisades to the shadow of Hook Mountain, which overlooks Haverstraw Bay. The students used their remaining free time to accomplish desired goals, such as climbing the rigging.

Tomorrow brings the student presentation and the final full day of the first leg of our Voyage of Discovery.

Robert Juet's Journal

The Halve Maen passes through the Hudson Highlands before anchoring in what is now known as Newburgh Bay.

On September 14th, 1609:

The fourteenth, in the morning being very faire weather, the wind South-east, we sayled vp the Riuer twelue leagues, and had fiue fathoms, and fiue fathoms and a quarter lesse; and came to a Streight between two Points, and had eight, nine, and ten fathoms: and it trended North-east by North, one league: and wee had twelue, thirteene, and fourtene fathomes. The Riuer is a mile broad: there is very high Land on both sides. Then wee went vp North-west, a league and an halfe deepe water. Then North-east by North fiue miles; then North-west by North two leagues, and anchored. The Land grew very high and Mountainous. The Riuer is full of fish.

-- Robert Juet's Journal.