I Am Moana
It started with the fact that I live on a boat. No it’s not a raft like she uses but I am using lines to sweat sails like she does. We take watch periods in a cycle - 4 hours on 8 off - and whenever you get a clear night watch you can see a million different stars in the sky. My watch team leader Dan and fellow watch team member Jack are both really into Celestial Navigation and so I’ve learned a lot about the stars from them. One of my new favorite constellations is Scorpio. Scorpio’s tail is the Greek equivalent of the Polynesian Maui’s Hook. So yes, I Am Moana. A rundown of things: -our mains’l boom broke... uh oh -we swam crossed the Equator! -we visited St. Helena, Fernando De Noronha, and Devil’s Island -we are now in Barbados about to start island hopping -we are about to start learning how to SCUBA dive -we’ve been taking classes on Marine Bio, Oceanography, Seamanship, and Leadership (I have my seamanship oral final tomorrow... wish me luck) We had a prom on Argo