Ryan arrived last night, it’s great to see him again and glad that he’ll be crossing the Atlantic with us. I didn’t really have any good jobs this morning, I was helping the bilge team clean the tank room with pressurized water, my job was to stop the leaking from the hose connection to the machine. Then Caleb came around and tightened it with his man hands and my job disappeared. I was then told to stand by and make sure backstays didn’t catch on anything as the mast went up, but then that was halted because the head rig is in bad shape and things had to happen there first. So I stood around for awhile playing deck monkey and helped Sam paint some bolts, then more standing around.
Laura grabbed me and we went back into the tank room to install the mini bilge baffles that have been in production for the past few days. The idea is to slide a piece of plastic into a slot and have water flow in but not out. The pieces holding the baffle in place have to be screwed in to the hull, a very awkward place, none of it went well and we were just stripping screws, luckily it was lunch time so we got to quit early.
After lunch there was a lot more standing around and helping those aloft to put up the fore topgallant mast, but that didn’t go well either. There was a lot of up and down, but it didn’t go all the way up today.
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