Tuesday 28 December 2010

Picton Castle at sea; Tuesday 28 December 2010 בס"ד

An extra hour because of time change to ZD-5. Woke up at 0530 and went to the quarterdeck, where Bracken was discussing Abandon Ship scenarios and protocols. Then laid in with soapy scrub-stoning the maindeck, using BBQ scrub pads, soapy water, and sand to scrub the deck, which was starting to become slick from algae. Wrote my log, now read and finished the Hunt for Red October. Breakfast, then work. Today's jobs included:

- final coat of stone on new sponge hotel

- paint starboard monkeyrail pads gray

- prime fore lower topsl sheet cleats

- two coats primer, oen coat tropical blue on propane tank D

- paint oxyfuel bottles black and seafoam green

- wash, scuff, spot scrape and wirebrush forward port davit from outboard in to the welding line above the bitt-cleat. Corroseal and prime exposed metal

- scrape the jibbbom parrils and the bowsprit to remove scale

- paint lower part of capstan and pawls red

- scuff and varnish flyrail spindles A and B and charthouse door

- sand and clean parts of town pump that wirewheel couldn't get, then corroseal

- sand town pup itself to remove layer of corrosion, then coat with grease

- corroseal steel part of town pump head

Work ended at 1600 for the seizings workshop part II. This time we broke into small groups and got a length of rope and some marline and worked on two types of seizings: the single flat seizings and the raking seizing. Our group also started the doubled round seizing, but we were told to save that for tomorrow and just practice these ones now. Dinner, then began to read The World According to Garp by John Irving and kept going until bed. Happy birthday Joe!