Docking in St. Michels

Another night at anchor, anchor watch is so much fun, get loads more sleep. For morning work party I painted the upper main futtocks and Grant and Michelle started to tar some backstays. By the time we got on watch we only had about an hour or so left till we got to St. Michels. Michelle was on the helm and I was on boat check so I ended up being power assist for her. It was some crazy driving around that we had to do, zig zagging between buoys. We anchored out because we didn’t want to dock in the middle of the day, we thought we might wait till the morning but ended docking after dinner.

For the second half of the day work party we busted up the sails and furled the staysails so everything looked pretty. People kept coming out and looking at us, we had a really sweet Skip Jack come out around us a few times. The view from aloft was amazing, huge houses next to the water and lots of trees, everything was really green and cheerful. It was also a lot warmer than I thought.

Docking was really amazing, came in slowly and all these people were there waiting for us. Some of Bounty’s old crewmembers were there to visit and they caught our dock lines which was great because they know how things work. Spent some time after that setting up a brow and doing chafe gear. Unlike at Peanut Island there is no giant tower so the brows are pretty steep and we had to put some boxes on either end. Sadly we left a few boxes back at Peanut Island, some really big ones we had stored on shore, maybe the Lynx will bring them up for us.

I was suppose to have duty but Michelle kindly took it away from me. Today at capstan she announced that she is leaving in Baltimore, she’s going back to some boats in Alaska. So I got to go out with everyone, Jesse and I walked around and explored the main street; everything was closed but still looked at all the shops. There’s a Christmas store that appears to be entirely devoted to selling only Christmas things… all year long.

Grant on forward look out.

Phone reception!

Robin.

John and Dan beating up the anchor.

Cory and Dan in the small boat.