Long and very eventful day. Besides having the do I was in the engine room a lot today, not what I expect, but really glad that I’m not stuck in there all the time now. In the engine room I painted a red wire black, cleaned up some tools, changed out the oil sucker upper pads and cleaned some buckets.
The things that got done to day, knocked down some bungs, moved the cannons all to starboard side, made some charges and had a cannon loading lesson. The deck box started to get fixed, more bungs were put in, things were tarred and painted. Another coat of oil went on the helm and sails were busted up to look neater.
We knew the Lynx was getting in around three so we were all prepared for that. I was down in bosuns when I heard Brooke over the intercom “all hands to the guns.” Grabbed my camera and ran up on deck. We were all running around looking at Lynx as she came in and then got a little more crazy when we started to prep the cannons. Worm, wash, load, home, prick, prime, ready to fire. It was a lot of fun firing at them and them returning fire as well.
After our little action we ran over to their dock to catch their dock lines, but the Lynx couldn’t dock because the wind was pushing them off the dock and there was just no way they could dock. It was decided that they were just going to anchor out and eventually ended up docking at the sailfish marina, right where we need to be tomorrow.
We finished up for the day, cleaned up and placed the last bungs. At the museum they were having a little party for the Lynx yet none of them were there because they were still trying to dock, so we all got food and had dinner there instead. I was on duty so went back to the boat for awhile to do duty things, eventually Katie came and got me and told me I had to be social. It was nice to meet the crew of the Lynx and talk to them for awhile.
Aww, your guns are so cute and tiny! ...That's probably not a comment you get very often.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I don't know if you lot know, but here at the Maritime Museum we make a big deal of it. 'Cannon' aboard a ship are properly called guns. Cannon are land artillery with big wheels and whatnot. Guns are on ships carriages and are rated by the weight of shot they fire (eg three-pounder, six-pounder, etc.) We give a speech to guests and say that if they ever use 'the C word' aboard the Californian (where we do most of the firing of guns) they must buy the crew a round of beer.