NOON POSITION

Latitude                                   10° 12.0’N

Longitude                                87° 47.5’W

Avg. Speed from Noon            11.6 KTS

Distance to Go                        2328 NM

WEATHER FORECAST

36 hour forecast

Expect fair weather with mostly clear skies and a chance of scattered thunderstorms as we move up the coast.  Expect winds from the east around ten to fifteen knots.  South West swells are expected at 8ft. possibly increasing to 10 to 13 feet due to storms in the South Pacific.  Overcast skies are present along the coast of Baja and parts of California.

Mets: Noste and Spath

Does anyone have photos of the Training Ship GOLDEN BEAR at anchor in Cocos Island?  And, if so, I would like copies.  I am especially interested in photos from the top of the small mountain looking down into the cove with the TSGB at anchor in the  harbor.  Please email your photo’s to Peg Solveson in the Ship’s Office.   Capt. Weinstock

3/C Eng – review of exam 4 at 1830 in Ericcson

Father’s Day picture. .  1230 on helo deck. Sunday

Dads on the ship. . . get your picture taken and say hello to the kids back at home – meet at 1830, quarter deck.  Sunday evening!

Medusa Row/Run  5K row, 5K run  will be done tomorrow (Sunday) starting at 0800.  [earlier depending on number of folks interested]  Sign up outside the ship’s office this evening by 2100.  Start times will be posted by 2115.

Costa Rica – if you have good photo’s for the web site, email them to Emily Cross by 1900 this evening.  Please identify where the picture was taken, and who is in it.

Dr. Rucas' Antrhopology 360 class will be reenacting a 'Mesoamerican Ballgame' on Monday the 19th at 1400 hours on the 03 Aft Deck.  The reenactment will entail music, festive food, costumes & the Ballgame.  The game will be delivered with the student's accumulative knowledge of the pre-Hispanic culture of South & Central America.  There will be limited seating due to the small vicinity, so come early.

Division Five Meeting Tonight, 1930, Ericcson Class room.  Please be present for a brief meeting to go over Sinbad games and our divisional murals.  All Cal Poly students participating with DIV5's should be present.  If you need to make stars, see the DivCom before the meeting to get the info you need.  GVN!

Deck Canvas Projects Due Dates:

Div 6 – 18^th June 06

Div 4 – 22^nd Jun 06

Div 5 – 25^th Jun 06

There will be a canvas projects “contest” for all those who care to enter, the evening of the 25^th at 1830.  So if want to see how the faculty/staff judge your project against your classmates, throw it into mix.  Neatness, cleaness of line, originality. . . . all those things count.   Bosn’ Allen

Congratulations to Cadet Chris Hartley!  The first 1/C Engineer to complete all STCW sign-offs!

Celestial Program - Congrats to Cadets Grout and Campbell for passing the celestial program. Excellent! 2/M

Attention All Hands - As of 1000 today, the GPS navigation systems on the bridge have been rendered inaccessible to the bridge watch. From here on the senior cadets on watch will be navigating the traditional way, using dead reckoning and celestial fixes. Sailing vessels sometimes went for days without a positional fix.  This is a practice our ship has undertaken almost every year, and every time, the navigational skills of our senior deck cadets have landed us safely in sight of land at the appropriate time and date. I am confident this year will be just as rewarding. 2/M

Celestial Program - Cadets who have stars but have not reduced them should do so tonight. If your shots don't work out you need to know so you can make efforts to shoot another set. Also, you are free to "bank" your shots with me in case a better night develops. We are now arriving at Catalina on June 25, so there are only 8 available sea days left and the weather above Cabo San Lucas looks pretty socked in. In other words, "Git 'er done!" 2/M

Cal Poly/Business Students – Tank Dive on Monday the 19^th, muster on the Green Deck, 1 level, forward, immediately after quarters.  Wear your work clothes.  Bring your hardhat, flashlight, and camera.  Gloves are an option.

Jam session, Saturday! Bring your guitars, instruments, and your imagination.  If you don’t have an instrument, you can make one!

Sinbad Games will take place tomorrow. Leisure wear is approved for Sunday beginning at 1000 for those personnel not on watch or duty.  During lunch, the approved work or watch attire is required.   **All leisure wear must be in good taste.

Prizes, Prizes, Prizes

Some of the prizes for the high scorers in eight of tomorrow’s games will include:

·  Sitting in the Capt. chair on the bridge from approx 0530 – 0630 while we are going under the Golden Gate bridge on arrival morning

·  Sitting in the Admirals chair on the bridge from the Golden Gate bridge to Vallejo on arrival morning

·  First Cadet ashore in Vallejo after granting of liberty

·  Dinner for four in the Officer’s Wardroom

·  Use of Admiral’s cabin for an overnight.  Date to be determined by Admiral.

·  Pint of ice-cream for five days.

Corps Corner

·  Water Conservation: Everyone has been doing good conserving water. Please continue to take sea showers, do full loads of laundry; ensure smart box hoses are disconnected from the deep sinks; and fill out AVOs for any leaky fixtures.

·  Since we are in warm weather, please ensure you dog external watertight doors down all the way and keep your windows closed.

·  To reiterate: Keep all valuables locked up and out of sight.  Property protection depends on you.

·  Laundry:  Laundries are open. Do full loads of laundry and use the little plastic scoops provided with the laundry detergent.  If the plastic scoop is missing from the laundry bucket, please see the Assistant Commandant to get another.

·  As per the cruise handbook, removing plates, cups, glasses, silverware or FOOD from the mess deck is not allowed.

LOST –

·   Black Spyderco knife, Rescue 79 mm, full serrated blade, please return to Garrett Anderson if you found

·   Olympus digital camera misplaced on the ship.  If found, please return to ships office or Luis (Ricky) Navarrete

·   Black mechanics gloves, w yellow “impact” symbol across top of hand.  If found please return to cadet McCrary or ship’s office.

·   “CD Projects” brand black case of approx 20 DVD’s, left in one of the lounges.  Please return to Trevor Lapham

·   1 GB SanDisk drive, if found, return to ship’s office or John Lugge.

·   Reading glasses, if found return to Lisa Fonzi

·   Cressi Dive mask  + Oceans snorkel, if found, please return to Dane Nordbak, last seen Cocos

Channel 22

7:00pm Good night and Good Luck

9:00pm Collateral

Channel 24

7:00 pm Second Hand Lions

9:00 pm Secret Window

Bow Cam                                                        Ch. 16

Electronic Chart                                              Ch. 14

News (when available)                                   Ch. 18

Sunday, June 18, 2006

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In a baseball game, where does a player wait to come up to bat?

Is your appendix on the left side or the right side of your body?

Who created the fable that gave us the saying “sour grapes”?  and what fable does the saying come from?

The middle ages began with the collapse of what empire?  And in what century?

What other big snake is the anaconda related too?

What was the Rosetta Stone a major key in explaining?

What sea lies between Croatia and Italy?

Say the first six words of the Gettysburg Address

Give the term for words that imitate sounds?

Yesterday's Answers:

Who was the inventor of an early hearing aid?

Alexander Graham Bell

What Spanish explorer searched for the “Fountain of Youth?

Ponce de Leon

What god did the Aztecs first identify the Spanish conquistadores as?

Quetzalcoatl

What is mitosis?

The process by which a cell divides to form two new cells.

Who wrote Hatchet and The River?

Gary Paulsen

Who was the grandfather of Ivan the Terrible?

Ivan the Great

What type of housing were the Iroquois known for living in?

Longhouses

Who settled the city of Detroit?

The French

Which president was the first to be inaugurated in Washington DC?

Thomas Jefferson

Which animal has more eyes:  a spider or a scallop?

Scallop  (spiders have 8, scallops have 100’s)

What country does not border on Italy:  France, Switzerland, Spain, Austria?

Spain

If you bisect a straight angle, what is formed?

Two right angles