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.
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