Friday 17 December 2010

Picton Castle at sea; Friday 17 December 2010 בס"ד

Woke up at 0545 and laid in with holystoning at 0600 to 0630. Wrote log, read, breakfast. The work list today included:

• going aloft to the maintop and removing roofing cement spooge from the boards

• scraping down the remainder of the aloha deck red waterway and prepping it for paint, then painting it

• wirebrushing and scraping the propane tanks to prep them for corroseal, primer, then white

• painting the black underneath the coffee station

• scrubbing the cup baskets

• scuffing the scuttle doors with 80-180 sandpaper, then varnishing

• sanding the outboardmost port spindle of the flyrail with 180 to prep it for the Mate and Siri

• check and soogie pinrails if needed, which was

• paint the after chocks black over the red overlap from tgallant rail painting

Even though the worklist seems smaller than yesterday, the jobs were somewhat bigger, particularly the aloft work, the propane tanks, and the scuttle doors, so that I didn't experience the lulls I had yesterday, and could always put somebody somewhere. I did encounter my first speed-related issue today, since somebody was taking a ridiculous amount of time to finish scuffing one door, while the other door was progressing right along. I tried a few ways to tell them to hurry up without patronizing them, since we both have the same amount of experience sanding things, and since it's not really a terribly hard job, but they continued at snail pace. I ended up just waiting for them to helm then putting somebody I knew to be super good on it. I also asked Sophie for advice. Anyway, after work, a 1630 workshop on basic celestial navigation, set up as an intro for new people, and a refresher for those familiar. Dinner, then watched two episodes of KvsS, but worked out on the well deck when they put on a movie. Read some, then worked out until I could hardly move, then passed out. Shabbat Shalom.