Monday 27 December 2010

Picton Castle at sea; Monday 27 December 2010 בס"ד

Woke up at 0715. Breakfast, then back to work. Jobs today included:

- painting buff on the jib boom cheek blocks and spot painting

- cleaning, corrosealing, and priming wire seizings in the headrig

- second coat primer, first coat tropical blue on propane tank C

- scrape, wirebrush, and corroseal propane tank D

- wirebrush, corroseal, prime the fore lower topsl sheet cleats

- wirebrush, corroseal, prime rusty patches on oxyfuel bottles

- paint the primed parts of the capstan black and red, accordingly

- paint another coat of stone on new sponge hotel

- paint another coat of stone on new sponge hotel receiving posts and basket hooks at the coffee station

- rinse, wirebrush, rinse, corroseal freeing port in port breezeway across from engineer's door

- wirebrush, corroseal, prime pads on starboard monkey rail

- second coat of penetrol on bamboo deck brush holders

- TSP white bottoms of mainstay and partners

- soapy scrub of tropical blue overheads

- scrape, brush, clean, corroseal starboard aft bands in the headrig

- scuff charthouse door and two spindles and 50/50 and 70/30 varnish

After work, had a workshop on making various types of seizings at 1630. Did that until 1730, then got advice from a shipmate on how to tie up my shorts and drag them in the water to clean them. I went to do this, but the Captain stopped me and said we won't drag laundry. Dinner, then read more Hunt for Red October. Watched a KvsS, then read late until only 20 more pages, but had to sleep. Clocks retarded tonight to ZD-5.