Location: Underway
With great power comes great responsibility. If there is one thing I have learned above the Ocean Star, it is this. So today, I–Graham MF Stuard–decided I would use my captain powers for good instead of personal gain. To commemorate this productive, adventurous day aboard the Ocean Star, I have written another poem with a barely different rhyme scheme.
“Eighteen men and women
Braving the open seas
None of them wearing denim
In the ocean, they all pee.
On the 29th, they awoke
And set sail to St. Lucia
Deep nose covid swabs were poked,
And underway went the crew, ya.
Alas! Oh no!
The foresail is not working!
We all then watched Sam scale the mast
To find the problem that was lurking.
The sailors had just two sails up,
And yet they still were Hoonin’!
Hoonin’ means go very fast
8.8 knots.”
Poetry, so beautiful. Yes, the foresail did not work when we went underway, which was very exciting–we got it almost entirely up before the sail got caught on its own block. Teagan, Maria, Grace, and I had to literally hang on the boom to get it to come down. As we sailed away, we saw a giant rainbow stretching across St. Vincent, which I would have included in my poem, but no words rhyme with rainbow. At lunch, we tried to sing a cannon, which went perfectly, with no off notes or lackluster singing at all. Us students have become significantly better at getting the sails up and getting the boat moving, which was easy to notice as skipper watching everyone run between stations on the boat and communicate well. Some other notes:
– Sophie and Maria cooked up some excellent meals today in the galley
– Grace set a new record on the helm, hitting 8.8 knots without the foresail, which further proves that watch group 2 is the fastest group by far.
The ocean star, her passengers, and every single sea worm in the greater Caribean area give our regards.
– Graham MF Stuard
P.S. – Family (especially Dunc), tonight during squeeze, I asked the covered in peanut butter 1% of the time question, and every single person on the boat said they would choose peanut butter. Statistical anomaly or self-sorting program? Tough to say.