Friday 14 January 2011

Picton Castle at sea; Friday 14 January 2011 בס"ד

Woke up on my own at 0630, since I forgot to request a courtesy wakeup from the new 4-8s. Wrote my log, breakfast, then set up for work. Jobs today included:

- painting sponge hotel doors stone

- painting Panama chocks on well deck white

- putting second coat of primer on freeing ports

- rustbusting part of the bowsprit, wirebrushing, and corrosealing it

- rustbusting, wirebrushing, and corrosealing the trash pump

- scraping the port foresl sheet block and oiling it

- scraping the fore tgallant sheet blocks and oiling them

- cleaning main lower topsl sheet cleats and corrosealing

- sweeping the aloha deck extra well

- cleaning out excess water from carpenters' workshop, including a very nasty spot under a rotten board

- cleaning out the focsle shower

- removing all caulking in the focsle shower

- scrubbing the shower curtain with bleach water

- sanding two Monomoy oars and penetrolling

- sanding and penetrolling the port center flyrail spindle

- sending down the dry hawsers to the chain locker

Cleaned up by 1600 for a 1610 workshop on serving by the Captain. Finished at 1700, took a nap until dinner. Dinner, then tried to get in my bunk but they were watching South Park, so I watched some. Then continued reading War and Peace, but started over with a notepad to keep track of characters because there are a lot and they often go by any one of many names or titles, which switch quickly and without direct inference. Bed. Shabbat Shalom.