So I just want to take a second and apologize for my lack of blogging! I'm going to make an effort to try and be more organized and get at least one post a month.
So since I last wrote you I finished my contract aboard Denis Sullivan, spent a couple months sailing and downrigging Pride of Baltimore II, started the sailing season aboard Lady Maryland this spring, and spending all summer aboard Lynx!
I hopped on Lynx in Annapolis at the start of May, and had five days to get familiar with the boat before we transited north for the summer. The transit up the coast was so tiring! We were on a two watch system, so there was a lot of time spent on working and no downtime to enjoy the transit. We stopped in Newport to take a break and spent a day there. I was so excited to explore Newport Shipyard for the first time, and honestly I felt like a kid in Disneyland. The next morning we got up at 6 am, bound for Nantucket! That was a really nice short day transit, and we didn't break into watches.
Comanche, a supermaxi breaking all the monohull records.
Enjoying a yummy lobster claw in Newport. My parents
never taught me not to play with my food...
Lynx, at the dock our first day in Nantucket.
Nantucket is Lynx's summer home port, so we arrived in May, but Nantucket was just getting geared up for her summer tourist season. So we spent a week here, running educational programs with local Nantucket schools. We decided to do some traveling around New England before the real start to the summer season, so we sailed up to Newburyport, Portland, and Boothbay. We returned to Nantucket mid-July to start our two months of daysails, charters and educational programs here. Throughout our time here we also did overnight trips with students from local schools. We did two week long overnight programs with high school students, and two three-day overnights with rising ninth graders.
While sailing off Chatham, we happened upon a pod
of fifty whales bubble feeding!
Did some much needed maintenance in Portland, Maine
Went out sailing on Wendameen in Portland!
Went to Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Days!
In my two months here, I have absolutely fallen in love with Nantucket. I was so skeptical at first about living on an island thirty miles out to sea, but it is such a one-of-a-kind place. I find myself having trouble putting into words exactly what I love about this place. I spent my time off at the beaches, in coffee shops, at Cisco Brewery, exploring 'Sconset, and watching so many sunsets. It is so relaxing here, and although there are a lot of tourists over the summer, there are many places you can go that aren't as "well-known". Now I'm going to bombard you with some of my favorite pictures from the past two months.
Lynx sailing on Nantucket Sound
Driving the small boat while escorting Lynx up the Mystic River
The most beautiful sunset I've ever seen.
A couple pictures from Nantucket Race Week
Taking a tour of Ocearch
I don't want to speak too soon, but I'm really hoping I'll have the opportunity to return to Nantucket next summer!
xoxo,
Brandi Lynn
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