We kicked off our year, and our study of explorers, with a fantastic hands-on learning opportunity -- a 3-hour educational sail aboard the Hawaiian Chieftain, a replica 1700s-era Tall Ship, operated by the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport.
We helped to set and trim the sails and divided into watches to learn about navigation, early trade, and the life of a sailor. Ahoy, mateys!
Scroll through the pictures to the bottom to see a few short videos of our crew in action.
Heave ho! Hoisting the sails on the fore deck.
Boarding the ship at Westport Marina.
A quick safety briefing.
Getting ready to hoist the sails.
Learning about a sailor's life.
A happy hard worker!
A rare moment of rest.
Hoisted sails.
Charting our course.
A gimbal compass
There are a lot of lines to keep track of -- each one for a different sail. They all need to be =neatly coiled and hung to keep things ship shape.
A traverse board, used to keep track of direction and speed sailed during a watch. Sailors (who could not necessarily read or write) would mark the direction by putting a peg in the hole of the compass rose on the top of the board, and mark the speed from the knot log (also known as the chip log) board on the bottom. This information would be recorded in the ship's log at the end of each watch by the ship's navigator.
Role playing as early traders, who would have sailed on trading voyages on the Lady Washington around Cape Horn to the west coast of North America, where they would trade for furs with Native Americans before taking those to the east to trade for silk and porcelain.
Reflecting on life at sea.
Ready outer halyards!
Heave! Ho! Setting the sails is hard work!
No cruise is complete without a round of rallying sea shanties!
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