10 January 2011

Wednesday 15 December 2010

Picton Castle at sea; Wednesday 15 December 2010 בס"ד

Got an 0515 wakeup, and got up at 0615 to lay in with holystoning on the focslehead. Wrote my log, then breakfast. Work today included:

  • scraping down the starboard third of the aloha deck waterway and painting the cement red

  • spot painting tropical blue overheads

  • putting a coat of 30% white primer on the airport in the port breezeway

  • scuffing the galleyhouse strongbacks and painting them buff

  • painting the hardware at the gooseneck of the mizzen boom buff

  • tarring the cowl vent grommets

  • painting the rest of the quarterdeck waterways red

  • painting the tgallant rail on the aloha deck a second coat of red

  • putting corroseal on the superstructure behind sponge hotel when it was removed in the spots Bracken was grinding, then priming them

  • lashing sponge hotel to the starboard well deck

  • overhauling a pile of harness carabiners

  • painting the foremast partners signal green

  • having aluminum primer available for people who were overhauling their harness buckles

  • putting the starboard cowl vent grommet in place

  • helping Logan and the riggers relead the outer jib halyard

After work, read more Last Grain Race, and Misquoting Jesus, then had dinner. Ate candy with Dave, then the “RED BULL” incident, then bed.


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