Hello, Mrs. G's class. It's great to know your looking at my blog. This is me, today, sailing my boat, Seawind, on Long Island Sound. My brother and I are sailing her down to the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. I'm standing at the "helm" or the steering wheel of the boat but we actually have a computer that steers the boat for us if we are just going in a straight line. Otherwise we to steer her ourselves.Most of the time the weather has been cloudy and rainy, but today we had sun for a few hours. It felt great after being cold for three days. As you can see, the water is calm--there was no wind so I did not put the sails up.
This is the deck of our boat. We don't have a shower, so we use sun showers. These black bags are filled with water and the sun warms them up.
This is how we navigate our boat. The little T.V. on the left tells how deep the water is and the one on the right is a GPS that tells us where we are and where we are going. It will even tells us where we have been. You can see the little picture of a boat following the straight line. That's what we need to follow. We also use maps made for boats. These look a little like road maps and are called charts.
I took this picture from the back of the boat this afternoon after we anchored for the night. We are almost in New York City. You can see the Throgs Neck Bride in the distance. Tomorrow morning we are going to sail under the bridge and go right through the middle of the city. Wish us luck.
And I hope you have a great summer.
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