Off She Goes

Alright, I am really lame for not having updated the blog for several days. I promise I will do better. My life has been crazed for the last week, and I have not had a day off in a week and a half now.

The Sunrise, cast her lines off on Monday morning and set sail for the waters off of Massachusetts to train activists how to maneuver the RIBs at sea. They will be spending four days at sea, and will return to Provincetown on Thursday afternoon, when I will rejoin the ship until October 10. You can check on the position of the Sunrise in New England when her AIS beacon is on.

Our first weekend in Boston went well. Our fundraising event was well attended, and I got through my presentation without making an ass of myself. After the fundraising event on Friday, we had two days of open boats – providing tours of the ship to the public. Turn out was not spectacular because our berth was in an out of the way place, but had a couple hundred people over the course of the weekend. The upside to lower turnout is that we got the spend more time with the people who did come through, giving them more thorough tours and talking in more detail about the campaign.

I am currently on Cape Cod trying to drive public awareness around our stops here this weekend. Myself, and arctic explorer Eric Larson did a live 30 min unmoderated public access show that was broadcast on the Cape’s cable network. It was fun, and reminded my of Wayne’s World. At one point, my mic started to fritz out, and so the produced came crawling into the studio on her hands and knees to hand me another mic. I had to bite my lip to keep from breaking into laughter.

Tomorrow, I am going to try and take the early morning off, although I have to meet with a reporter from the Cape Cod Times at 11:00am. The Cape Cod Times is the largest daily paper on the Cape, and it is crucial that they cover the ship stops. I got to convince him tomorrow morning that it is worth their while.

Well … keep coming back, and I promise I will be updating it more frequently.

That’s all for now.