Alcyone

• Sun
• Nov
• 30
• 2008

Newport to BVI - PT 2 - Made it to Bermuda!

After 4days 6hours at sea Alcyone and our crew made landfall.  Captain Jon Spano, First Officer Dermot Bremner, and Seamen Dave and John Egan smiled upon the sands of Bermuda and it gleefully smiled back!  The first couple days were a bit bumpy with with seas that were both confused and large, but once we crossed the gulf stream things settled down considerably.  The stiff winds and rough waters made life a bit difficult below deck and considerably more dangerous above, but it was thanks to those same strong winds that sped us briskly through the waves to this splendid island hundreds of miles off the Atlantic Coast.  Thank you once again, Alcyone, for a safe passage!

We were ready to leave by 11pm but a technical glitch caused a long delay (our global positioning system was turning a cold shoulder to the ship’s computer until Dermot and Jon were able to calm the tensions between the two technological counterparts).  We finally got underway and had Newport Harbor fully to our stern by 2am.

Our four-man watch schedule was broken up into two sections as follows:

A day schedule was kept from 6am to 6pm broken into three-hours long segments, and the hours of 6pm to 6am were broken into two hour increments.

Captain Jon Spano began, John Egan followed, then Dermot and next Dave who was, in turn, relieved by Jon and the cycle continued thus-wise.

Anytime a crew member is alone in the cockpit he is securely harnessed in and when out of the cockpit on deck we tethered to the jack lines (bright orange safety straps which line either side of the deck).

CREW:

Jon Spano - Captain/Owner

Dermot Bremner - Captain/First Mate

Dave Branford - Second Mate

John J. Egan III  -  Crew - johnegan@alumni.uchicago.edu - www.myspace.com/johnegan