More Patch Serve and Paint

Once again up in the rigging with some more patch serving to do. Sitting on the yards to reach the footropes and other awkward places. Did a bit on the main and then headed to the mizzen, there was a lot on the topsail footropes, stirrups and eyes.

Kat, Katie, Brooke and I worked on that while Peter, Ashley and Sveta did more on the futtocks shrouds of the mizzen. Unfortunately some how when Ashley was painting the shrouds with steel primer, the paint bucket tipped over and spilled while it was on the mizzen top. Paint spilled down and hit the deck, splattered the helm, deck and the aft hatch into the great cabin. At first I didn’t realize that it had spilled that much because I couldn’t see, but when Sveta went running to get Peter I knew it was bad. Those of us not in the middle a serve went down there to help out.

In the end the thing that looks the worst is the deck, at least we plan on redoing that. We got everything off the helm, which was the main priority. When Robin and Rebecca came out to look at it they looked really upset.

At capstan we found out that Ashley was asked not to come back when she leaves to go home for Christmas. Pretty sad, but she seems okay with it, not to upset. She offered me her cabin; she was in there alone so maybe I’ll move in there, good to have your own space while you can.