Atlantic Crossing Jan 28,09

Wed Jan 28,09

Night watch was fantastic, the stars were amazing and for most of my time as lookout there wasn’t a
single cloud in the sky. I had first lookout and fourth helm so I was on the helm at the end of our watch
from 7-8am which was also when the Sun was rising. As the sky brightened the sea changed colour from

Me on helm at the end of our night watch.
Photo by David Bellows

almost black to dark grey and then various shades of grey and silver to the blue it has during the day.



A flying fish landed on deck and Sophie, second mate on the Bluenose who is getting sea time with us on
the crossing, found it under the coffee rack on the Aloha deck. Had agood look at it, Their wings are long
tapered fins almost as long as their bodies.

Today will be our second CN class and we are supposed to get a chance to work with a sextant which will
be cool.

More later…

It’s later and there was no CN class today as everybody was deeply involved in rigging up th stunsls
(studding sails). We also had a class in different kinds of sailing rigs and why our ship was rebuilt with the
barque rig. Very interesting on both fronts.

There was one hiccup during the stunsl rig down when a wind gust pushed the spar holding the peak of
the sail right through the upper topsail! That means we have to unbend the sail and replace it with an older
sail from storage. I guess that will be on the agenda for tomorrow.

We are now 760 miles from the equator and I do believe that Neptune’s “minions” are about their
preparations. Or at least they want us pollywogs to think so. :-)

Thanks for reading
KJ