Charles W. Morgan

     In 1941 the Charles W. Morgan, the last of the wooden whaling ships, arrived at the young Mystic Seaport Museum. I have a vague, fragment of a memory of being at the Seaport in the late 1950s. Maybe I was between 5 and 7. I think my sister was in a stroller at the time but I am very uncertain. In my memory the place looks much different than it does today or when we joined the Seaport in 1983.

     We arrived on a 23 foot sailboat with a 3 month old child in what seemed like the coldest August ever. That's a whole 'nother story.

     Anyway, the Morgan has left the Seaport for the first time since its arrival. Sad and happy at the same time. In our membership history we have witnessed 3 major overhauls with  this last one being the most ambitious, preparing her to return to the sea. It is her 38th voyage.

     We weren't there for her arrival but we have witnessed her departure.

     The good news is she'll be back after getting ballast and her sails in New London and a cruise to her birthplace in New Bedford and then up to Boston via the 100 year old Cape Cod Canal. We hope to see her under sail and then be back aboard her again after she returns to Mystic. 

     Fair Winds Morgan!