Made bacon and eggs with raisin toast for breakfast. Ham and cheese sandwiches on hot sauce bread with broccoli soup for lunch and chicken with brussel sprouts and spicy fries for dinner.
They also attempted to take the mizzen mast out, the crane wasn’t big enough.
I’m cooking now as of after breakfast; Peter and Dina are going to California for a few days to take a look at the lighthouse bead and breakfast they applied at. I made coconut lentil soup and hummus for lunch and pork roasts with veggies and garlic Parmesan bread for dinner.
Had the day off and it wasn’t as gloomy as yesterday. Walked around the town, Katie and I went shopping, finally got another pair of pants and some supper rubber soled sandals. Amy came up to see us so we spent part of the day with her and she was able to drive us a little out of town to look at Maine. Port watch worked on about the same things as us, pried some things apart on the mizzen.
Port watch had the day off and the rest of us had work party. It was raining and the wind was blowing like crazy so in the morning we had to play with taking up on dock lines and taking the brow down because it was stretching too far across and might have snapped. Spent the whole day inside taking service off of more cables, had a block taking apart party and painted some iron work.
The crane arrived this morning to help take the masts out. Most of us worked on taking the service off of everything, crojack gear and things from the spanker. The ironwork on the topmast had to be cut as well as part of the top to get it out. They were working on getting the crosstrees apart and poor Richard wasn’t tall enough so he had to come down and Chris went up. We got stood down at the usual time because there was nothing left that we could do, the topmast came down in one piece.
A watch gets a late wake up because the other two watches were docking the boat at Boothbay Harbor. For work party we took down the spanker, gaff, boom and some antennas. In the afternoon we started to take down the topmast, most of us didn’t have real jobs so eventually as things were brought down some of us got to painting mast wedges and ironwork. Also took down the mizzen staysail. The mast wasn’t able to come down all the way because of the way it is shaped at the top, square and bulgy where it should still be a cylinder to get through the ironwork. Guys from the shipyard came and pried off the wooden vainer around the mizzenmast on the tween deck. Cory spend the day in the engine room taking things apart.
Got woken up late because B and C watch were docking so we could go through customs. For morning work party we served the cables we had un served two days ago. On watch we had to really communicate with our forward look out because there were so many finishing buoys all over the place, we managed to only run over three during our watch. Dina and I also finally made a sourdough starter.
