Just had the longest day ever. Got up at 0320 for watch and didn’t get to go to bed till 2000. Brought up the anchor half way and waited around until we got a call from the canal saying we could come in. We ended up docking just outside of the canal, work the rest of the crew at 7 and got in our first canal at 8 with Appledore IV and Denis Sullivan. When we were in between locks everyone laid around on deck still half asleep and trying to stay in the shade because it was getting hot, as Amy calls it, a flopper diver.
We didn’t have work party, but it was still all hands all day, we went through all 8 locks in the Wellen Canal, it took 10 hours. Right after A watch took the deck in the afternoon Grant yells from the fore deck, “Hard right!” Tom at the helm turns and slides along a buoy and then since he’s turned so hard we were heading towards the canal wall. After that Peter tells us all to go to bed for an hour. Having that small nap really helped the next three hours go by without a catastrophe.
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