Twelve-year-old Benjamin Slocum keeps his own journal as he travels with his family from Boston to Honolulu in the clipper ship Sea Tiger.
Author's Note:
Bluewater Journal is inspired by authentic logbooks, journals, and letters found at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. This story is told from the point of view of a boy who keeps a journal as his family travels around the Americas. Their ship sails from Boston in April 1860, rounds Cape Horn, and arrives in Hawaii, known then as the Sandwich Islands, four months later. They travel by the fastest mode of transportation available at the time: a clipper ship called Sea Tiger, 180 feet long and 36 feet wide.
I wish to thank the staff at the Mystic Seaport Museum for their time and help on this project.
This book is dedicated to those who have a romance with the sea and its ships.
—Loretta Krupinski
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