Fay 267 - Don't Give Up the Ship — Captain Father John

Miles cruised 0, fuel purchased $0, slip fee $114, daily high temperature 76°f

I awoke to the sound of a loudspeaker and chatter coming through our hull at 6:30 am. When I glanced out the porthole onto Ego Alley there was a rowing shell and coach boat turning around. We saw another crew shell row past a little later. They are high school students that are training at the Naval Academy. CL is in the background.

Our guided tour of the Naval Academy was inspiring. There is so much history and tradition on this 338 acre campus.

The freshman students are called plebes. They must wear their uniforms (no civilian clothes) for the entire first year. There is a bit of controversy regarding the term used to define students at the Naval Academy. They are called midshipmen after the British term for trainees who learned on ships and were quartered in the mid section on the ship. Currently the enrollment in the academy is 25% women. The PC term being considered is Midshipperson. Women were first accepted in the Naval Academy in 1976.

We toured the chapel and saw the crypt of John Paul Jones the Revolutionary War naval hero.

The crypt is supported by four dolphins as legs and then the top is sculpted like seaweed to make it look like it is underwater.

Captain John Paul Jones

The campus museum has an amazing collection of naval artifacts including the flag flown by Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie in 1812.

A photo of the rotunda by Andy

Bonus photo – John with the Navy football team mascot Billy (the goat).

Carl (Chef) Wooden – quote of the day

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
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