Down rigging fore royal

It was a really long day, yet everything when by pretty quickly. I put a coat of black on the bell, Chris and Peter sanded more of the whale board, Brooke, Grant and Katie sanded the mizzen fife rail to get the scratches out and put a coat of oil on. Another layer of oil was added to the capstan. Kat went aloft with Sveta to start down rigging the fore royal, the yard came down today. Brooke went up later to help out while Kat was dealing with taking down blocks.

After lunch I went up with Sveta to have a turn and help her out. I actually hadn’t been up to the fore royal so I’m glad I got the chance to before it was down rigged. Mark came up, he was bored and wanted to help, but maybe in a way it made it more complicated because he and Sveta had a conversation about how she was down rigging and how he thought it should be done.

Kat, Brooke, Chris, Sveta and Mark stayed up in the rigging while they were still fiddling with last minute things to get the yard down. Eventually it was just Sveta and Mark up there and the rest of us on deck to ease the gantline and haul on the tag line. At one point it got stuck on some chafe gear on a backstay so we had to haul it back up so Sveta could take it off and then we lowered it to the deck.

We are eventually going to be down rigging the whole foretopmast so that we can put in a Dutchman on top of the lower mast.

Mark looking silly.

Carrying the fore royal.

Fore royal down!

Kat showing off her tools.

Bosun party, Katie, Sveta and Mark.

Finished painting the bell.

Grant removing a shackle from a block.

Day off

It was a colder day so we stayed inside and it rained. We watched movies and I made pecan pie.

Paint Fumes

We didn’t do a deck wash today because Sveta said that the whale board would get wet and then wouldn’t be able to do any work outside. I was put back on rust busting the ship’s bell and painting it with metal primer, that stuff really smells. Brooke did the last touches on the deck box, helped set some staging and then mended the sail. Chris was doing battery and engine room things. The whale board was sanded and things were cleaned up in bosuns. Grant and Katie were stuck in bosuns for two hours, there were a lot of fumes making woozy.

Lynx is our neighbor

Lynx is finally docked next to us, it’s really nice to have neighbors.

Today’s jobs, Chris and I panted the rest of the hull, had some difficulties with the staging and actually getting down there, so he was down there the most while I played deck monkey. Ran around getting things for people who were over the side. Kat finished caulking the seam above the whale board, Grant and Brooke finished the deck box and later started to sand the whale board. Katie sanded the whale board on the port side and later I started to do some rust busting on the ship’s bell. Sveta played around with the forward port pin rail station post, pried off the copper cover to get to the bolt so she could tighten it and hopefully stop the waterfall of water that kept coming into the galley when we did a deck wash.

Chris sanding the hull.

Kat caulking the whale board.

Lynx in her new home.

Copper ripped off the station to revile bolt.

Grant and Brooke moving staging while Katie talks to Sveta.

Grant and Brooke prepping the whale board.

More work

Katie and Kat caulked a seam; Grant and Brooke finished up the deck box lid and painted it. Chris and I were put together again and we painted more of the hull, he was on duty today so I was stuck down there most of the time by myself. He went off with Peter for awhile so I painted the whole thing by myself. Did some mousing on the mizzen in the morning as well.

Lynx is suppose to be docking next to us tomorrow, after having been here a week already.

Odd day

Today was a bit annoying; things just went a little wrong. After duty things I joined Grant on the fore mast to do some quick mousing. Katie tarred and later was in the engine room, Sveta and Grant worked on the deck box, Brooke and Kat painted the hull, Chris and I did more deck fixing.

The annoying things that happened, Brooke got shocked by a sander plug, Josh got shocked by the fan and Sveta by some other plug. Chris and I broke two drill bits and the starboard engine randomly shut off.

Josh did manage to get three coconuts, chilled the water and drank it when Dennis and Mark came over. Mark came to hang out with Sveta and spend the night. Dennis came over to do some laundry, while we waited Grant showed us some capuaria, we have the space for it so everyone was do cartwheel type things and stretching around.

Day off on the Lynx

You know you’ve gone a little crazy when you spend your day off working on another boat. Grant, Brooke, Kat and Josh went ashore, Sveta, Chris, and I went to the Lynx.

The Lynx crew, Alex, Dennis, Duffy, Karen, Hannah, Ashley, Jimmy, Mark and Jake, only the first three are staying all winter. The rest are leaving at the end of the month and new crew should be arriving soon.

I ended up scrapping off oil from the main fife rail with Ashley for awhile, Dennis joined in when Ashley went to the museum to do inventory and after lunch Alex joined in as well. Sveta helped Mark with hoops for the mast and Chris helped Duffy with some cannon gear.

We got to eat lunch there and we all had to squeeze in around their table, and extra three people really made a difference. Grant, Katie and Brooke showed up, they just stopped by on their way back from shore and Katie decided to stay and help us with work party.

It was a really great day and it was nice to get to know everyone in the work environment. After spending all day on the Lynx it really made me appreciate how much space we have on the Bounty, but the Lynx is really badass.

Dennis preparing to dive for a mug that went overboard.

Alex, Duffy and Chris cleaning up cannon tools.

Ashely taking pictures in the water of the barracuda.

Lynx's main fife rail, scrapped.

Bounty from the Lynx at the sailfish marina.