Into the Night

Peter and Katie had gone to the library and rented Beerfest so we stayed up watching that, in the spirit of it all Katie and Peter drank a lot of beer. Next we watched the ’62 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, it’s so odd watching the ship that we are currently on and seeing how different it was before. The great cabin was bigger, hatches were in different places, the boat was blue, the masts white, the capstan shorter and white, stripes on the fife rail are white and a few things we have that weren’t there then. The hatches that we use as vents for the galley are there, but used as hatches to climb down into the ship. This one guy coiled really funny, put half the coils on the pin and then coiled some more, odd. Where the skylight is it was a closed hatch and a small boat over it. The stairs in the great cabin are more at an angle then our ladder we have today.

Peter also commented on how the boat handles. He talked to Sam who worked here for a season and said the ship went where he wanted it to and planed to have it go. While Robin who’s been here 15 years says that sometimes its good and others just does whatever it wants.

Comparing the boat from when it was originally built, before the refit for Pirates of the Caribbean and now, a lot has changed.

Later we found ourselves in the laz because Peter kept going on about how he had breadfruit plants down there and everything was looking good but oh you wouldn’t want to see that. The Laz is and interesting place, haven’t really hung out there much because it’s not a place I really go. There is space for four mates; the larger room in the middle has two and one on each side. The port side room has a sign that says, “honeymoon suite” Peter is on the starboard, he needs a sing that says, “engineer suite” with a wrench and something silly, prove he really is a shut in, lol. Also the wiring down there is odd, some sockets are hooked up as lights on the circuit board and to make the emergency lights go off you plug them in.

What an odd Christmas Eve this has been for me.