It was a fun family event, in many respects. I showed up at the southwest corner of Manhattan, where I thought Reid Stowe on the schooner Anne would sail by and found a group of Stowe’s family and friends had gotten there already. His father, brother and sister were there. Several had flown up from the Carolinas. No doubt other family members were there as well, as were quite a number of friends. There were banners and drums and a good feelings as the prodigal returned. There was also a photographer from the New York Post, who was attempting without much success to photograph another even entirely, who was snapping photographs of the schooner and Reid’s family.
The wind was gusting out of the northwest, so Reid proceeded to tack his way up the harbor, sailing in company with the schooners Pioneer and Adirondack III, all led by the historic fireboat John J. Harvey blasting her water cannon in celebration.
Reid Stowe on schooner Anne returns to New York Harbor after 1151 days at sea
Excellent, thanks!
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You are the only person on the entire internet who got the number of days right, for Reid’s non-stop journey! It is, as you said, 1151 days, not 1152, as widely reported (even on the 1000 Day website).
Using a date-difference calculator, one can see that if you start at 3 pm on April 21, 2007, the 1151st day would be completed at 3 pm on Tues., June 15, 2010. That was the day that Reid apparently anchored just off Sandy Point, NJ—which I consider stopping for the purposes of the ocean-going voyage. I think that in this case, even the Reid Stowe team are deluding themselves by adding on another day during which Reid was anchored and not sailing. I am sure the record-keeping bodies will pick up on this fact and reduce the record to your correct evaluation.
BTW, I enjoyed your video which you kindly placed on YouTube for us to see the arrival of the “Anne” in New York Harbor.
I am pleased and surprised that I got the number of days right. Not sure how that happened. I usually screw that sort of thing up. Glad that you enjoyed the video.
“My Desultory Blog” also got the number of days right initially (although for a different reason, because he was still considering June 17 as Day 1151, which is wrong). You can see his take at NYC arrival of Reid Stowe’s 1151 days at sea.
He seemed to be hedging on it with his “EDIT:”. Anyway, you might have seen his number and gone with it.
My idea of what happened, is that the Reid Stowe Mission Control was off by a day, already a long way back, and no one bothered to correct it. I happen to like Maths, and when I saw different numbers for the total length of the journey, I decided to settle it once and for all. Correctly stated, the first day of the journey should have been Day 0 (mathematically speaking) as on that day, a full 24 hours had not yet expired.
For the record, you put your money on the right horse, in this race! 🙂
I don’t want to bore you, but I used the site
Calculate duration between two dates, and got the following result:
~~Duration calculation results
From and including: Saturday, April 21, 2007
To, but not including : Tuesday, June 15, 2010
It is 1151 days from the start date to the end date, **but not including the end date**
Or 3 years, 1 month, 25 days excluding the end date~~
You don’t include the last day, because the first day was not a full day, as they left at 3 pm, not at midnite. I don’t have Google Earth on my PC, but if you do, you could go to “1000days.net” and look up their Google Earth Map on the left-hand bar, and see that Reid Stowe was anchored just off Sandy Hook, NJ (not Sandy Point, as I erroneously stated) by June 15, 2010. My Google Map shows him still in the Atlantic Ocean on June 14.