New month

Another rainy day so more work inside. Kat and I varnished a column in the great cabin and now it looks greater. Before it was a really dark stain and there was paint splattered all over it, now it’s down to wood and a good colour. Katie and Grant were doing a safety check, the fire extinguishers, fire alarms, safety rings and air horns. Katie later painted a fire extinguisher bracket, cleaned the tank room, oiled the chest of drawers and painted the galley door. Grant ended up doing more patch serving and tarring. Brooke was sewing most of the day and I later joined her, the jib sheet pennant finally has all its chafe gear sewn on. The bolt rope is also pretty much all in place, just a few loose places that need more sewing and now we’ll finally get to work on the actual canvas of the sail. Ethan was doing things with Peter, fixing the leak in the shower, which we think really comes from the galley sink.

Shower being fixed.

Oiled chest of drawers.

Jib pennant chafe gear.

Varnished column.

Second column, what the other one kind of looked like before.

Hauling up like to get to the wood behind.

Grant easing the line back.

Brooke finishing sewing.

Wadded up sail.

Katie lounging on the sail.

Grant and his pink flashy cup.

Oiling and Sewing

I oiled the chest of drawers that lives in the heads. Unscrewed it from the wall, sanded and oiled with a Sveta mixture, oil, linseed oil and pine tar. I did some whippings on the end of lines and finished sewing the chafe gear on a line.

Brooke was in bosuns servicing blocks and later sewing the sail; Kat was cleaning the galley and then sewing. Katie was tarring boots in the head rig and making a new one on the port cathead. Grant was all over the place again, patch serv, tarring, bosuns and Sveta was working on the eye bolt again. We also started to change the stopper knots on the lines, from figure eights to double overhands.

We also got a new volunteer, Ethan, another Canadian.

Figure eight vs. double overhand.

Brooke.

Kat and Brooke changing stopper knots.

Deck Fixing

Brooke and I were put on deck fixing, the goal was to fix the ones that had popped out or knocked down badly. The bungs from the other day were still up and weren’t ready to be knocked down by the time tours started so we had to make areas for them to walk around. After lunch we worked on sail mending and exercised the helm a bit because we wanted to and were excited to do it, starting to move a little more easily.

Sveta went back to trying to get that eye bolt out. Chris and Kat sanded the spanker boom and later Katie came and oiled it. Grant did more patch serving and tarring.

Fancy Yachts

This morning Kat and I did more deck fixing, after lunch and after we watched Lynx sail in I was put on the whale board with Katie. We finished painting the whole whale board! Sveta worked on getting another eye bolt out, but it really has become one with the boat, Grant did a variety of things, patch serve and tarring. Josh and Brooke went provisioning and Chris took the day off. Tonight we went over to the really fancy docking for yachts, Geronimo invited us over for a crew party they have there on Friday nights.

Brooke watching Grant sewing.

Grant mending his shorts.

Girls of the Bounty, Brooke, Caz (me), Katie and Sveta. (Kat not photoed)

Late night shopping

In the morning Kat put another layer of oil on the mizzen fife rail, Brooke and Grant patch served and then tarred the fore royal footropes. Katie started servicing blocks while I oiled a few of them down in bosuns. Katie was stuck in bosuns for most of the day. I painted the port side whale board, all of it is done. Kat and I painted ourselves in but we managed to climb back up to the boat with no yellow footprints following behind us. Chris put another coat of black something in the engine room, the tiller and the bell. In the afternoon Chris and Brooke were on the starboard whale board. Grant added another layer of oil to the fore fife rail and Sveta took apart some dead bolt over the side of the quarterdeck.

After work Brooke, Katie, Grant and I went out, more shopping, good will and ross for clothes.

Tarred royal foot ropes and lifts.

Wet taRRRRR.

Freshly pained whale board.

Oiled mizzen fife rail.

Freshly painted rudder.

Lynx and Bounty.

2 Months

I’ve been here two months now and everything runs smoothly and we all have a rhythm to work to. Kat was up in the rigging all day taking down more gear related to the royal and the topgallant. I took off the lifts and footropes from the fore royal and then added another layer of oil to the mizzen fife rail. Chris, Grant, Brooke and Katie were all doing things related to the whale board; Grant was being more of a deck monkey.

Right before lunch Katie and Brooke left so that Brooke could play the piano at some store for her birthday.

After lunch I pained the whale board while Chris caulked, Kat up in the rig again and Sveta and Grant were working on the tiller.

How To Simulate The Life Of A Sailor

How To Simulate The Life Of A Sailor

~ Buy a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for six months.

~ Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.

~ Repaint your entire house every month.

~ Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and move the showerhead to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you turn off the water while you soap down.

~ Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.

~ Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.

~ On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they use too much water during the week, so no bathing will be allowed.

~ Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling, so you can’t turn over without getting out and then getting back in.

~ Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack."

~ Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc.

~ Have your neighbor come over each day at 5 am, blow a whistle loudly, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out and trice up."

~ Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 6 am while she reads it to you.

~ Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 3 pm.

~ Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not.

~ Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you.

~ Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one.

~ Make your family menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator.

~ Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs.

~ Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off.

~ Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. (midrats)


~ Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose.

~ Every week or so, throw your dog in the pool and shout, "Man overboard port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond.

~ Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup "Stove manned and ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoebox.

~ Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4 hour intervals. This is best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time.

~ When there is a thunderstorm in your area, get a wobbly rocking chair, sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. Make sure to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket.

~ Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and allow the pot to simmer for 5 hours before drinking.

~ Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.

~ Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front.

~ Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for "liberty." At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.

I got this off a friend of a friend.