It was a really long day, yet everything when by pretty quickly. I put a coat of black on the bell, Chris and Peter sanded more of the whale board, Brooke, Grant and Katie sanded the mizzen fife rail to get the scratches out and put a coat of oil on. Another layer of oil was added to the capstan. Kat went aloft with Sveta to start down rigging the fore royal, the yard came down today. Brooke went up later to help out while Kat was dealing with taking down blocks.
After lunch I went up with Sveta to have a turn and help her out. I actually hadn’t been up to the fore royal so I’m glad I got the chance to before it was down rigged. Mark came up, he was bored and wanted to help, but maybe in a way it made it more complicated because he and Sveta had a conversation about how she was down rigging and how he thought it should be done.
Kat, Brooke, Chris, Sveta and Mark stayed up in the rigging while they were still fiddling with last minute things to get the yard down. Eventually it was just Sveta and Mark up there and the rest of us on deck to ease the gantline and haul on the tag line. At one point it got stuck on some chafe gear on a backstay so we had to haul it back up so Sveta could take it off and then we lowered it to the deck.
We are eventually going to be down rigging the whole foretopmast so that we can put in a Dutchman on top of the lower mast.
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