Friday, June 2nd Mystic, CT to Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY
Good Morning, Mystic Seaport!
Sunny, but windy and cool – 60 degrees.
Prior to leaving Zingara – ahhhh, I had my coffee, a poop, and the first on-board shower! As we’re plugged into electricity at the dock, I got to blow-dry my hair, even curl the ends a little bit. We “zapped” some leftover breakfast food, and were on of the first in line to board….
The Charles W. Morgan. First launched in 1841 – last voyage 1921
This is the only still-existing Whaling Ship in the world. It was amazing to walk the deck, while listening to the stories and explanations from Jim, the volunteer that adopted us.
We watched other Mystic people as they hoisted and open the sails (while standing up on the spreaders) singing sea shanties as they worked.
A young woman gave us an extremely interesting talk, while stand along shore in a Whaling Boat
She explaned how whales were spotted (from the fore mast of the main ship), how they launched the boats, who sat where and what their job was, and, of course, explained about the “Sleigh ride”!
It was exciting to us, but such a very dangerous and difficult life for the whaling sailors of the 1800s.
Mystic also had other boats to explore, and lots of little homes/shops, for example,
“the Sail Shop”
and
Marina Supply Store, with it's huge Block & Tackles.
Rick also explored the Boat yard,
while I checked out the “Crockery”, “Pharmacy”, and General Store.
We meet back at Zingara by 11:30, as we had to plans to travel back to Long Island for the weekend.
Prior to leaving Zingara – ahhhh, I had my coffee, a poop, and the first on-board shower! As we’re plugged into electricity at the dock, I got to blow-dry my hair, even curl the ends a little bit. We “zapped” some leftover breakfast food, and were on of the first in line to board….
The Charles W. Morgan. First launched in 1841 – last voyage 1921
This is the only still-existing Whaling Ship in the world. It was amazing to walk the deck, while listening to the stories and explanations from Jim, the volunteer that adopted us.
We watched other Mystic people as they hoisted and open the sails (while standing up on the spreaders) singing sea shanties as they worked.
She explaned how whales were spotted (from the fore mast of the main ship), how they launched the boats, who sat where and what their job was, and, of course, explained about the “Sleigh ride”!
It was exciting to us, but such a very dangerous and difficult life for the whaling sailors of the 1800s.
Mystic also had other boats to explore, and lots of little homes/shops, for example,
“the Sail Shop”
and
Marina Supply Store, with it's huge Block & Tackles.
Rick also explored the Boat yard,
We meet back at Zingara by 11:30, as we had to plans to travel back to Long Island for the weekend.
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