Thursday 20 January 2011

Picton Castle at sea; Thursday 20 January 2011 בס"ד

Woke up at 0600 in our new time ZD-3.  Wrote my log, breakfast with story time (my 21st bday story), work.  Today's jobs were:
- two coats red on scullery fire axe bracket
- two coats white on mop blocks
- paint focsle shower walls previously mentioned color scheme
- scuff and paint the entire bowsprit buff
- spot paint black on tgallant rails from stbd well deck break aft to aloha deck
- paint quarterdeck wire seizings white
- stencil and paint black PICTON CASTLE on two oars
- paint trash pump frame black
- lash down nav lanterns in chain locker
- paint sponge hotel centerpiece blue
- sand/scuff all stbd spindles and port spindle "C" and penetrol and varnish them
- scrape, sand, penetrol upper stbd galleyhouse door inside
- scuff and varnish stbd lower outside galleyhouse door
- scuff and varnish port upper outside galleyhouse door
- paint yellow the windlass brakes and other hardware
- corroseal crowbar
- corroseal and prime dog nut for shower airport
- penetrol extinguisher holder nub in workshop
- assist me in pouring more white paint from big 5 gallon bucket
Good work day, and finished up by 1615.  1630 workshop on serving an eyesplice.  Did that until 1730, then laid in setting some fore-and-aft sails and passing the flying jib.  Dinner with more stories for Ali.  Then accompanied them with photos, and found the Kleinschmidt Evaporator pic, so I made my own for Macdonough in the engine room.  Watch Hancock, got photos from Joani, bed.

Wednesday 19 January 2011

Picton Castle at sea; Wednesday 19 January 2011 בס"ד

Woke up at 0700, wrote my log, breakfast, work.  Jobs today included:
- paint red on sections of stbd breezeway tgallant rail that had primer
- second coat of penetrol and signal green on exterior charthouse lights' trim
- sand and penetrol two more Monomoy oars
- stencil PICTON CASTLE on two oars and paint black
- second coat primer on mop holder wood pieces
- remove kerosene lanterns from chain locker, replace later
- scuff and paint two coats buff on a spot on port strongback
- paint buff on primed bowsprit spots
- spot paint black on tgallant rail from port fore backstays aft to port main shrouds
- scuff the interior of the focsle shower, then paint the primed spots like so: forward, yellow; outboard, green; inboard, white
- scuff and paint Monomoy  end seat thwarts (triangley bits) stone
- scuff and spot paint the aftermost thwart stone
- paint seizings on quarterdeck white
- second coat of buff on main lower topsl sheet cleats
- tack down and steel wool clean trash pump engine
- rig up broom stick on stbd quarterdeck ladder
- scuff and varnish port galleyhouse doors and part of wooden trim
Had a few slow workers today that I tried to motivate to work harder, but some people just never do.  Or I need to be a better motivator.  Yeah, probably that.  At lunch break, I cut myself a piece of the old oak maintop boards to use for making a serving board.  Finished cleaning up at 1635 for a 1630 seizings workshop (slow workers cleaning brushes while I helped set up the workshop).  Rejoined my group, and did the "what if our serving material breaks or we run out of length in the middle of our serving?" scenario, intentionally cutting our line halfway, then re-mending it back in.  Not hard at all, and I was much faster at serving today than before.  Dinner, then read some Odyssey and passed out on a sea chest in the salon.  Eventually went to my rack, then slept and read and slept again.  I received a poem today?  Clocks retard to ZD-3 tonight.

The day you thought might never come...

I've found my old logbooks and will continue posting entries from last year's world voyage!  I do have every day written out, it's just a matter of sitting down and typing them up.  Here's two now!