tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67907954591600655972024-03-13T12:39:58.799-07:00Harvey GamageFollow the Voyages of Harvey GamageAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03932839006472488298noreply@blogger.comBlogger366125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-8150747483407229692014-05-27T12:14:00.000-07:002014-07-18T10:16:02.613-07:00Congratulations!Congrats to all of our Spring 2014 crew on an epic voyage! We all look forward to hearing about your future adventures, and hope to sail with you again soon.<br />
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Be sure to check out <a href="http://www.poststarnews.com/article/20140527/NEWS/140529719/?Start=1">Laura's article on the voyage</a> in her local newspaper.<br />
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UPDATE: Check out an <a href="http://wilmette.suntimes.com/2014/07/14/schooner-ocean-weave-life-experience-watson/">article about Mandy and the OCF spring trip in her local paper! </a><br />
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A beautiful day sail from Some Sound saw us shoot through Merchant Row and the Fox Island Thoroughfare toward Rockland, where we'll stay for a weekend full of final exams. For our local families, please hold off on any visits to the ship so your students can focus during the busiest academic days of the semester! </div>
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We're looking forward to seeing all of our friends and families a week from tomorrow in Portland! </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-16868372234694975162014-05-14T04:59:00.001-07:002015-04-29T11:18:02.124-07:00Maine islands<div dir="ltr">
After a short stop at the Isles of Shoals marine lab and bird research station, we had a lovely passage east to Stave Harbor, where we had a much needed day devoted to academics and a bit of small boat sailing in Gecko. All are well, studying hard for finals and taking in the incomparable Maine coast.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-16206370740112521302014-05-09T16:37:00.000-07:002014-05-09T16:37:20.899-07:00Outward Bound for Isles of ShoalsGloucester has been a wonderful stop for our crew. We not only stocked up on fuel and provisions, but visited whale researchers at Ocean Alliance who are designing drones to fly into the blows of whales to collect valuable data to study whale stress. They call it a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY_2CRWBulA">SnotBot</a>. They're also working with the pop artist Pharrell Williams on a <a href="http://grist.org/list/pharrell-is-making-jeans-out-of-recycled-ocean-plastic/">new line of jeans</a> made out of recycled and reclaimed ocean plastics. <br />
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We had a great call in Mystic Seaport, surrounded by beautiful wooden boats and living in a maritime museum. We celebrated Scott and Mandy's birthday, worked on the ship, and meet some fantastic people. We're bound today for Gloucester via Stellwagen Bank. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-58277235318044738422014-05-03T04:55:00.000-07:002014-05-04T12:45:09.379-07:00Fish On! Finally, after two and a half months of intensive fishing (if you can call dragging a handline intensive…) we caught our first edible fish today. As we started to near the cooler waters north of Cape Hatteras we had begun to give up hope of enjoying the pleasure of fresh fish straight from the sea. Each morning we dutifully streamed our line off the taffrail, with the confidence that today would be the day and we would soon be eating the fresh fish sandwiches for which our cook Lizzie is famous for throughout the fleet. But every night at twilight we would reluctantly coil up the fishing line with resignation and, as the days wore on, despair.<br />
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Sure we've had some close calls; we've seen Dorados (Mahi Mahi as their known) leaping in the air around our lures, we've seen them lying in wait under fish floats, and we've even caught a few barracuda (which we threw back over concerns of ciguatera). Our wait for a delicious seafood meal would have to wait.<br />
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But today was different. The entire ship was woken up to the call of "Fish On!" yelled by our Chief Mate, Mr. Leathers. In no time he had a beautiful Bonito (a smaller cousin in the tuna family) over the rail amidst a very happy ship's company. Not wanting to waste any part of this opportunity, we reviewed some salient aspects of the fish's physiology, and looked in its stomach to see what we could learn about its diet. Shockingly we found about two dozen small larval crustaceans, larval fishes, and even a very small seahorse! Nothing was nearly as big as the lure that the fish had tried to eat.<br />
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No rain, clear skies and a snug, quiet watch. All are well and excited for phone time this afternoon. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-3458078235044144492014-05-02T07:11:00.001-07:002014-05-04T12:45:51.236-07:00New morning<div dir="ltr">
Under way to Mystic after hauling up the anchor under a beautiful dawn sky. All are well and eager to explore the wealth of maritime art, history, and culture on display at Mystic Seaport. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-64048481114695550582014-05-01T13:08:00.001-07:002014-05-04T12:46:15.756-07:00Sunshine!<div dir="ltr">
More rain this morning, so we walked three miles in our foulweather gear to Greenport, explored town, got schoolwork done, and worked on the ship. This afternoon brought sunshine, an almost forgotten sensation! Clothes and gear were brought out on deck to dry and had a swim call to freshen up for an early morning passage to Mystic. We also got a closer look at some of the jellyfish we share Orient Harbor with. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-18882080086070063002014-04-30T08:34:00.001-07:002014-05-04T12:46:26.627-07:00Orient Point, NY<div dir="ltr">
The <i>Harvey Gamage</i>, currently anchored in the safe harbor of Orient Point on the east end of Long Island, NY, is waiting out weather before heading up the river to Mystic, CT. After rounding a becalmed Cape Hatteras, students and crew experienced heavier wind and seas from the NE as we tried to beat to weather around Montauk Point, as well as pelting rain and cold temperatures. Waves constantly swept the deck but the entire crew's persistence and skill prevailed in the end. Though there are only 20 short nautical miles to Mystic, it will be nice to not fight the weather, if only for one night! <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-25742239649246563842014-04-25T07:24:00.001-07:002014-05-04T12:46:42.248-07:00Heading North<div dir="ltr">
We've rounded the fearsome capes: Capes Fear, Lookout, and Hatteras, and are headed north along the North Carolina coast in a light south easterly breeze. This morning we passed the Wright Brothers memorial in Kitty Hawk. </div>
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After spending a lot of time, and money, in Charleston, we've decided to forgo New York and head for the east end of Long Island and southern New England. This will allow us more time sailing in Maine before we disembark in Portland in a month's time. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-8974144710609653382014-04-20T10:58:00.000-07:002014-05-04T12:46:52.321-07:00Happy Easter! A fantastic Easter holiday to all of our family and friends! We're excited to get under way tomorrow and continue our voyage north. All are well!<br />
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A quick stop at the biggest live oak this side of the Mississippi on our way back to the boat... all are well!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-73053153018263118992014-04-18T06:13:00.002-07:002014-04-18T18:16:26.756-07:00Beached Dolphin at Seabrook I.While enjoying a walk along the sandy beach, I saw two trucks parked near the crashing waves. As I got closer to investigate I could see the body of a bottlenose dolphin. Two women, marine biologists, were taking different tests such as temperature, and were photographing the beached mammal. After looking more closely at the dolphin, I could see lesions scattered on its body. The women told us that the lesions and the fact that the dolphin died on the beach were definite signs of Morbillivirus, though she couldn't tell us conclusively at the time without more extensive testing. This virus has killed over 1,100 dolphins up and down the east coast over the last year. This is the second epidemic, one in the '80's killing only 800 bottlenose dolphins. <br />
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Watching the women examine the creature was interesting and it
amazed me how quickly they did it. Finally seeing a bottlenose up close,
exposed from the water, was interesting, since I've only seen them play
in the wake of the Gamage's bow. Although it was sad to see such an
beautiful animal dead--a tear still clinging onto its face--I'm interested to learn more about the Morbillivirus and other diseases that
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-59753388564230774572014-04-17T21:24:00.000-07:002014-04-18T05:34:10.043-07:00Modern ports and southern hospitalityAnother day waiting out weather ashore doesn't mean we can't learn about the seaport of Charleston and the ships that call here. This morning we visited the commercial port of Charleston, and saw how the containers that carry the goods we consume are shipped around the globe. We saw how different kinds of cargo, like cars or grain, require different kinds of ships and seaport facilities, and how technology has impacted maritime labor and seaport culture.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-36725976053895489492014-04-16T10:57:00.001-07:002014-04-18T18:27:19.525-07:00Waiting it out in CharlestonAs you can see on the iBoat track, we're still in Charleston. The cold front that brought many of you April snow showers is creating strong northeasterly winds off of Cape Hatteras, known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic," so the Captain has exercised due caution. While the old saying predicts that ships and sailors rot in port, there's definitely worse places to get stuck! We're exploring the sublime spring gardens at the Magnolia Plantation today...<br />
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We're in the middle of a fantastic Parents' Weekend here in beautiful Charleston. In a few days we'll be bound north. All is well!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-50103836703435531672014-04-05T15:19:00.000-07:002014-06-02T20:30:03.513-07:00“How is your trip going?” <style>
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After a two week passage consisting of 1588 nautical miles total, lots have been going on aboard the <i>Harvey Gamage </i>lately. But when you talk to your sailors during their precious, yet fleeting, phone time, it may be hard to understand all of what such a passage entails. You'll hear imprecise adjectives about the trip... great, wonderful, hard, long, tiring, awesome and the like. Hopefully this will help fill in some of those holes. <br />
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Sailing out of Santo Domingo, we beat to weather in light breezes, once again getting used to the sway of the ship and the open ocean after a long time ashore. We had a swim call over a section of the Puerto Rico Trench, 3800+ meters of blue water between our treading bodies and the ocean floor. We saw humpback whales on Silver Bank and a few days later a pod of pilot whales visited during a stunning sunset. And dolphins. Lots of dolphins! Our sailors are taking on more responsibility, navigating the ship and leading the watches themselves, and quite impressively so.<br />
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We saw green flashes--many of them, and at both sunset and sunrise. A number of students became "aloft cleared," and have been clamoring aloft for rig checks and the fantastic views. We found the gulf stream by checking surface temperature and salinity in what Scott has termed the "Benjamin Franklin Memorial Quest for the Gulf Stream," a wildly successful venture. The stream added up to 4 knots to our speed. <br />
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We've been keeping a record of all of the merchant ships we sight on watch, which have been numerous and challenging to our student navigators, to better understand the maritime world of today. We sailed 207 nautical miles over a 24 hour period, a rare feat for <i>Gamage</i> or any sailing vessel. We've celebrated birthdays and had a masquerade ball.<br />
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Not to say there weren't trying times as well. A stomach bug pestered the crew, as did seasickness and leaky decks after the wood shrank being so long in the heat of the Dominican Republic. But we've persevered together and have had a fantastic passage. We're so very looking forward to seeing family and friends so soon in Charleston!<br />
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have a large volume of knowledge about sailing obtained in the best way
possible. By doing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">What have they
learned? A small list would be: tying 14 different knots, setting and taking in
of 6 sails, helmsmanship, safety drills, cleaning, boxing a compass, sewing,
determining wind and sea states, fixing a position with chart and compass,
reefing sails, using a sextant to take noon for a latitude, use of radar for
navigation and collision avoidance… just a partial
list. You may not understand most of it but they do, and they have learned all
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well now they are
entering what we call the Junior Watch Officer (JWO) phase. Now your student who maybe couldn’t remember to pick up his
or her room, has to run a watch at sea. Navigate the ship, insure we aren’t in danger
of hitting or being hit by other vessels, decide when or weather to set or take
in sail. Basically, be a leader, take responsibility for themselves and others
and earn the trust and respect of their shipmates. You would be proud.</span></span></div>
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There is
something about these long passages that brings out the artist in the sailor.
Between Santo Domingo and Fernandina Beach students and crew have created an
abundance of poetry, journal writing, and art. It has become commonplace to
crowd around the cabin top in the evening and paint the sky, noting changes in
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On the main salon bulkhead poetry is
posted and shared. The Flying Fish that have come aboard have been rolled in
ink and printed on post cards and t-shirts. The abundance of talented artists
aboard has given rise to what we call the "Gamage School of Wildlife
Portraiture." The students' notebooks, field guides, and journals are
filled with the beautifully depicted flora and fauna of the ports we have
visited. The Asa Wright Bird Sanctuary in Trinidad, with its thirteen species
of hummingbirds, inspired many illustrations. Our artwork has become reflective
of our knowledge of sailing and the natural world around us, each reinforcing
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Sirius, dog star</div>
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Wind blowing over my face</div>
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I can't feel alone</div>
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Since leaving Santo Domingo, the students have embarked upon
individual scientific research projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each student has come up with his or her own original scientific
question, developed a hypothesis, and planned out a procedure to test this
question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The topics chosen are as
diverse as our students themselves, and range from fuel efficiency of the
ship’s generator, to the abundance of bioluminescent plankton in the waters
around the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But don’t take my word
for it, I’ll let the students tell you all about it:</div>
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trying to see if nitrates in the water affect dissolved oxygen content in the
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are found in agricultural runoff and sewage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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dissolved oxygen levels in certain areas of the ocean, killing large amounts of
marine life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has become a major
problem in places such as the mouth of the Mississippi river where agricultural
runoff from the entire Mississippi watershed has created a large ‘dead
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or not this has become an issue near other large rivers or cities.</i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I will be studying how
the ocean breaks down plastic trash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Understanding what happens to the huge amount of waste we produce is
important and interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As often as I
can, I two a plankton net behind the </i>Gamage <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to sample the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look at
the sample under our dissecting microscope and count and classify all the
microplastics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also keeping a log of
macroplastics spotted from the boat or caught in the tow. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I record our location, any major currents, and
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</span>Through this project I hope to better understand our waste’s effect on
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-84567056823529821852014-03-17T11:11:00.000-07:002014-03-17T11:47:20.881-07:00Swim call in the deepWe've had some amazing swim calls on our voyage thus far. Not only is it refreshing for the body in the sweltering heat, but it is refreshing on the mind and for the ship's dynamic. Nothing works to brighten the morale of the ship's company like a good old swim call in thousands of feet of clear Caribbean water!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-86608773510696148902014-03-17T11:03:00.003-07:002014-03-17T15:35:34.444-07:00Venus in the skyScott, in reading Bowditch's formidable tome <i>The American Practical Navigator </i>(as one does) and the current edition of the <i>Nautical Almanac</i>, learned that Venus, currently at an astronomical magnitude of -4.8, is visible during daylight hours. Mayhem ensued, as eyes strained for the planet amidst the bright sunlight in the hopes of getting a sextant sight and a daylight celestial fix. While Scott had Venus momentarily brought down to the horizon, the elusive daylight planetary sight eluded us... until next time!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-28805012764535927042014-03-17T10:55:00.003-07:002014-03-17T11:46:53.876-07:00Barracuda biologyWe haven't had too much luck fishing as of yet, catching and releasing three barracudas. Our fourth barracuda, unluckily for her, got her gills caught in the hook and died. Lucky for our students, however, who got to dissect the fish and learn about barracuda biology...<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790795459160065597.post-47358631108167209312014-03-17T06:32:00.001-07:002014-03-17T11:49:00.000-07:00La Republica DominicanaFirst, apologies for the long absence... We've all been busy with mid-terms, exploring the oldest city in the Western Hemisphere, and preparing for our service project adventure.<br />
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With a very fast passage leaving Trinidad, we were able to make a quick stop in Vieques, Puerto Rico before making landfall in Santo Domingo, DR, a successful week-long passage of nearly 800 nm using solely traditional means of navigation. Our GPS intentionally turned off by the captain, we relied on navigational fixes using the sun & stars and "dead reckoning," which calculates our progress using our course steered and speed to track our own progress. Our students, now well versed in the ship, are learning more advanced skills like celestial navigation by calculating our latitude by measuring the angle of the sun's apex--or our local apparent noon.<br />
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Here in the DR, we'll be working with a local school and orphanage that aims to help poor, mostly immigrant youth of Haitian decent. These kids often have no nationality status, and little prospect. In learning about the long, fractured history of Haitian & Dominican relations, we'll hopefully better understand how national policy and long-held perspectives on race affect these kids. We'll post more photos and student work in the next few days, so stay tuned!<br />
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And apologies for the slideshow that stopped working... you can still access all of our photos from the link at the top of the page under the banner, and we've replaced the small slideshow with a better, Flickr-supported one that is expandable within the blog.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0