heading to sea...

well, the fine shipboard engineers, led by terry, got the ship running
on their estimated schedule. we left dock before 17:30.... i awakened
from a nap at 5:44 and we were in the locks... i had 15 mins to get
dinner and the cook sarah had made me a custom mushroom risotto just
for me! she is the bomb. i am so lucky to have such a kind cook on
this cruise!

we were quite the spectacle to memorial day tourists at the locks.
many photos taken of our ship and us... and i got a few shots of them
too...

we are now in puget sound and are heading north to the strait of juan
de fuca. N47 42.8176 w 122 25.4833 is our position right now. now it
is not, lol.

we are already logging bathymetry and the res techs (computer and
technology crew from the U/W crew) are working on getting the 3.5 kHz
chirp running. it is currently not recording the heave (the ship
motion going up and down). the heave is important to remove from the
measurements to have a 'correct' bottom and depth measurement.

we expect to hit the mouth of the strait around 5 or 6am... my shift
is from 8am to 4pm, so i will begin my shift a little early to make
sure we get off on the good foot, just like james brown would say.

sailing off into the sunset~~~~