Pirates 4

Took an easy day off, have big plans for tomorrow. A big group of us went to see Pirates 4 in theaters, it was good, not enough boating for us though.

Plymouth Gin Distillery.

Bottles.

Gin and tonic bottles.

Tapas

Everyone was tired today. The crew cleaned the tween deck today, scrubbing, painting, shinning things up and general spring cleaning. It was amazing the transformation the great cabin went through, everything appeared to be white but in fact it was actually grey.

I spent the day baking and making food for the next two days. I’m on port watch with John, Baron, Doug, Rich, Sam, Grant, Tenley, Chris, Mitch and Jesse and we have the next two days off. The other watch always gets stiffed if they don’t have the cook and scrounge around for food, so I made two hotel pans of stuff, one for each day for lunch. They’ll have cereal for breakfast, or if we had enough eggs I would let them make their own and for dinner leftovers from lunch and a few things that are in the fridge now. A lot of people have been going out to eat as well and most of the off watch will be away during eating hours.

Doug took Jesse and I out to dinner, we had tapas, I haven’t been this full in a really long time. This is also the first time in ages that I haven’t set my alarm, I’ll actually get to sleep in.

Working on the yards.

Patching the capstan.

Baron's Birthday

Baron’s birthday was yesterday but I made his food today, rhubarb pie. His food was more complicated so I was in the galley all day. Lots more coats of oil both on the cap rail and the deck, the whole rig is being tarred and neatened up, and work on the bilge is still being done, looking for leaks and futzing with the baffles.

French bread.

Jesse oiling the cap rail.

Tino tarring shrouds.

Laura sanding stairs.

Chris' Birthday

Today was Chris’ birthday so I made the meals by what he requested and for his cake, chocolate with peanut butter frosting, it turned out great. In other news, the co’jack is back in her place, not exactly finished with though, they painted over the raw wood, the whole after side of it is wonky. Lots more sanding, oiling and painting. The mates and Robin are still working on the main coarse, it’s all glued together, just giving it some shape.

Relaxing before capstan.

Army Navy Surplus

I was really glad to have a day off, got to sleep in a little, but people were meeting at 0830 to go to a army navy surplus. It was easy to find on the bus and was a good store, Brooke and I both ended up getting jackets, Doug and Jesse got bright coloured light foul weather gear; Doug’s was an old police man’s jacket. A lot of the crew ended up going there today.

Brooke and I decided to walk back along the coastline because while we were waiting for the boys to finish shopping Richard appeared out of no where on a path. Robin and Jesse wanted to go to a car boot sale and Brooke and I ended up there anyway on our walk.

Chris, Tenley, Mitch, Brooke, Jesse and I ended up going to Gog & Mgog’s for lunch where the boat got a discount, I had fish and chips with mushy peas and Jesse had steak and kidney pie.

We then walked around the city a little, church, Poundland and some thrift stores.

Surplus store.

Plymouth sound.

Car boot sale.

Tenley loves land.

The Hoe.

Painting

The crew spend the morning making a lot of saw dust and wood chips, sanding the red covering board and the cap rail while Robin and shaved away at the main coarse. The afternoon was spend cleaning up for the reception tonight.

Drew sanding.

Where the Mayflower steps use to be.

Brooke sanding.

Richard.

Chris.

Mayflower steps.

Cannon.

Cliff side.

Plymouth sound.

Tenley and Grant painting.

Tino sanding.

Late day

Everyone stayed up really late and partied hard so this morning was really slow.

I went to the grocery store after lunch, oh my gosh, it was so beautiful; John and I drooled at the deli counter. I found most of what I needed, but not yeast, they had it in small packets, but that just won’t cut it for me. We asked at the bread counter and they had blocks of compressed yeast, I’ve never worked with it before but I’m willing to give it a try. About 2 cups work for 2 pounds, not a bad price at all.

Finding flour on the other hand might be tricky.

For dinner I made a great big salad that got devoured very quickly.

Over the next few days the crew has to complete certain things so that we can all get a few more days off. All they were suppose to do today was paint the hull, but Robin wanted the co’jack up so that took up a lot more time and they had to work till 8 pm. I felt bad for them, knowing how it is, so I made butterscotch brownies.

Matt cutting line.

Grant crawling out onto the yard.