Work party merchandise

Starboard watch was on work party, we spent the first two hours sorting sweatshirts and setting up merchandise. Jesse ended up getting a black hoodie lined with orange and orange piping on the sleeves. There was also a white one with red down the sides and lots of strange colour, bright orange and teal.

Katie and I revved a seam between the deck and covering board, cleaned the galley a bit while waiting for it to dry out and then put it back together. Justin worked on the mizzen topgallant yard, he’s almost done.

We had a potluck for dinner with the other boats.

Too many colours.

Port Washington, WI

Last night I had made honey whole wheat bread that was a big hit at breakfast this morning, supper fluffy. For work party we put up the mizzen royal. It was really great to be able to finally understand everything that was going on. It also went up really quickly because there is no sail and there for no gear to run.

Docked in Port Washington, WI tonight. It was really awesome the way Robin docked, let out the anchor and swung us around between Unicorn and Pride.

Mizzen royal prep

This morning we all worked on things related to the mizzen royal so that we could put it up tomorrow. I painted ironwork and then served a soft eye wire splice. Tome and Little Frog worked on serving as well. We deep cleaned crew areas today and it got done pretty quickly so I ended up helping afternoon work party tar some things.

Right before dinner Grant departed the ship while he was on watch. Leaving Green Bay we had a lot of time to spare before we had to be in Port Washington so we followed the wind. Sadly Grant had received a call that his Grandmother had passed away, but lucky for him we were able to drop him off in Michigan pretty close to where he needed to be.

Life

Again this morning we played with the sails to reduce weather helm and then took turns calling sail. During watch we did a deep clean of the galley, the stoves were really filthy and we took apart the drawers under them. We also heard that the Roald ran aground. On watch I ended up making chocolate bread.

Weather helm test

We sailed off the dock and continued to sail, we had a really nice heel. For work party we put the boat back together and then tried fixing the weather helm by striking and then slowly resetting them. We had to decide speed vs weather helm and some weather helm can slow you down a little. In the end we struck the mizzen topsail.

The 12 to 4 has new chores, we didn’t have many so they give us a shit ton instead or redistributing them. Everyday we now have a new thing to deep clean and it rotates through out the week. A lot of it seems silly to do every week, why take all the extra water out of the heads and clean it every week.

Tours and Party

This morning before tours the guy with the yacht came over to collect his sail and he gave me $40! Tours were easy, a nice steady stream of people as usual, saw some super tall people today, it was crazy their heads were touching the over head.

We also had another Bounty keg party, Robin likes them because not only are they fun for us but it gives other professional sailors a chance to see our boat and then maybe come work on us. Also gives us a chance to talk to captains of other boats, even if they don’t remember us they’ll at least remember our crew.

Day off and sail repair

There are a few ports that we go to that there is not much to do and it’s a great chance to catch up on sleep and get things organized. Jesse, Katie and I walked around, went to a little museum about natural history and history of Green Bay. Had Thai food for lunch and ended up back at the boat to do more nothing.

At the end of the night I had something to do though. This morning a guy came by looking for a sail maker and ended up talking to Darren who referred him to me. He had some yacht called Roxy and her jib had a tear in it so I told him I’d fix it. It really wasn’t that bad, to us she could have lived with that tear because her sail was dual sided, but I was happy to do it.