We all know everyone’s favorite way to wake up is to a blaring alarm, that’s how we got to start our day. The general alarm went off at about 0645 with Peter yelling down in aft crew, “Abandon ship!” Scrambled out of bed, ran up on deck, shoved ourselves into the gumby emersion suits, threw on a life jacket and went aft to the life rafts to our port or starboard groups. We did the drill in 4 minutes, not bad for everyone having been dead asleep.
Those of us who haven’t done SCTW had to jump in; legs and arms crossed and over the side we went. It was actually a lot of fun, we made a raft and then a chain and swam around the boat, the suits actually keep you really dry, only faces and hair got wet.
In the morning Grant and I finished the forward port pin rail stanchions, got to put really shiny copper tops on them. In the afternoon Katie and I painted all the slats from the main top, it was annoying to get them down and then had to scuff, prime and paint them all. They still need another coat and grit.
There was also another mousing party on the main and mizzen, every shackle has been moused now. Turn buckles got covered and the cross tree on the main got put up. We worked about two hours over, but I’m sure tomorrow will be another long day.
We leave on Thursday!
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