Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Happy May Day, Beltaine to you all!
May your hoop be merry and your pole be stout!
Had a very busy day today.
I worked bending on a new inner jib out on the jib boom. The sails are held on by “robands” which are the
unraveled strands of a manilla rope. All the sails on the ship are held to their respective yards and the
metal hanks that hold the staysails to the stays by what is essentially twisted grass! It doesn’t look very
strong but in aggregate they can pull the entire ship in rain and sun, gale or calm.
I also helped the Engineer, Chris, test a firehose from the engine room, hung it up in the rigging to dry then
connected it back up in the engine room and flaked it back into it’s box.
We had a workshop on wire splicing and a swim call.
To top it off we had BBQ’ed ribs and chicken for dinner. Ahhhh lovely after a hard days work in the Sun.
Going to go ashore tomorrow to check out this famous bar called Foxy’s, owned by one of the premier
citizens of Jost Van Dyke. John tells me there is WiFi ashore as well so it’s all good :-)
Thanks for reading and Bright Mayday Blessings to everyone!
KJ
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