David Appleton
A picture of me at "the office" somewhere in the Atlantic,
delivering a Moorings Beneteau 405 a couple of years ago.
Subject: Blackpoll Warbler & Capt. David Appleton
Date/Time: October 28, 1993 -- Local Noon
Place: Atlantic Ocean -- AP - N 27° 10' -- W 64° 50'
Occasion: Taking noon Sun shot for our daily fix, en route from Rock Hall MD to St. Thomas, USVI, delivering "Segue", AMI's Charter boat, a Packet Cat 35', to the Island Yacht charter fleet in Red Hook.
Comment: About 7 days out of Beaufort, NC (about 830 nautical miles East of Miami and 960 nm South of Nova Scotia) four of these guys joined us after some fairly rough weather (30+ winds & 15+ seas). This one seemed intent to know his precise location. Several months later we read of this species' annual migratory flight from Nova Scotia to South American in Smithsonian (4/94, pp. 16-20) and were appropriately awe struck. Our 'rough' passage seemed rather comfortable and unambitious in comparison.
Photo by: Edward Watson, crew
David Appleton
from the April 2000 Newsletter