From Boston through the Cape Cod Canal: July 23

On July 23, 2014 the Charles W. Morgan sailed from Boston through the Cape Cod Canal to Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

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Stowaway: Canal Talk

Learn the history of the waterway that separates Cape Cod from the rest of Massachusetts.

Log: July 23, 1842.

Catching dolphins...

"It's unusual that the museum opted to put its most valuable artifact in harm's way. More meaningful, though, is the example this set for other institutions dedicated to curating public history."

Svati Narula: A Priceless Museum Artifact, But in the Ocean

A journalist explores the implications of the 38th Voyage.

Francomano recording

Dante Francomano: Cetacean Citations

Hear a contemporary concert piece inspired by the soundscapes of whales and whaling and by sounds recorded during the Morgan’s 38th Voyage.

Mike Vogel pg. 1

Mike Vogel: Voyage Journal

A commemorative poem for the 38th Voyage.

Charles-W-Morgan portrait

Mike Vogel: The Light from the Whale

The Charles W. Morgan still exists. So does the 1833 Buffalo Lighthouse that once burned oils brought back by America’s whaling fleet. Its keeper tells the tale.

Deck log: July 22-23, 2014

Deck log: July 23, 2014

To Mass. Maritime Academy. "1416 Abeam R 12 off Manomet Pt; wind SSW F5"

"How many hundreds of other young men, for example, served on whalers, without writing a word about it, or perhaps even being able to do so? There is nothing probable, really, about Melville turning his whaling years into literature..."

Ellie Stedall: Sea-Room

As Melville noted, “You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the Truth in.”

"... sailors were not really supposed to sleep. They were supposed to work. And it is in seeing them work that one truly begins to appreciate the whaleship as an intricately calibrated wood, rope, and canvas machine."

Karim Tiro: Screw the Past

Reflections on the extraordinary range in the life of the nineteenth-century whaleman.

Cape Cod Canal Centennial

News: Cape Cod Canal Centennial

The Morgan traveled from Boston to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy on Wednesday, July 23 to take part in the centennial celebration of the opening of the Cape Cod Canal.