Leaving the dock at Newport this morning was really interesting. We put Grant on the dock to take off our dock lines, we eased our dock lines until we had backed out enough. Grant had to get back on board so we swung him the yard arm tackle incase he couldn’t just jump back on.
It was really foggy we the fog horn was going off every 2 minutes and the wind was pushing us in the wrong direction. After we had backed out we had to turn around so we put down the anchor and set the spanker to spin us around. Finally started getting through the fog and some of us were sent to make the tween decks look sexy for our arrival in Fall River.
Once docked in Fall River we were all over the side finishing up painting a few things. There were not enough places for us to tie dock lines so we ended up tying a few to near by trees. We got a new volunteer for a few months, Amy, she’s from Maine and just graduated college and wanted to have some fun before she got stuck in a real job.
Tonight we had a reception aboard, a fundraiser for the local railway museum. Some of the people who worked there and who were there for the reception were on Bounty when she was owned by Fall River and sinking at the dock.
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