"The colour of despair"

Monday Aug 29

Came on deck this morniing to a very bumpy sea. It had turned a dark Atlantic grey, or as Adam calls it: "The colour of despair" :-) The ship was motoring South West and rolling pretty heavily. No sign of Sea Sickness so I'll call this a win.

Our night watch last night was not as cold as I expected but we were definitely motoring directly into the wind. The stars were pretty bright while I was on helm so I was able to steer pretty well until a big cloud came up and blocked them.

Lookout was tricky as in addition to watching for ships we had to try to identify the bouys inshore of us against the lights of the shore. I messed up and missed at least one, sigh.

This morning we were motoring into the strong wind and eventually came into the small bay called Sheet Harbour and anchored, where we are at the moment.

My cleaning job this morning was the "Scuttle" which is at the top of the Salon steps and in which all the cleaning supplies are kept. Now it looks reasonably clean, which is good, if the cleaning locker is dirty... :-)

This afternoon we will be sending down the Royal yards and gear.  Looks like we will be anchored near Lunenburg tomorrow afternoon, likely Rose Bay, then we will motor/sail into Lunenberg mid day on Wednesday.

Some of the guys are talking about adjusting their flights ahead a couple of days.
I'm not going to worry about that till we are actually tied up in Lunenburg.

Time and Tide wait for no man as they say.

Thanks for reading.
KJ

P.S. Eric from the 12-4 watch came up on deck and asked if I wanted a picture of myself on helm.
I said yes and he got these!

Later

Just finished dinner, which was another excellent Niko repast!
Porkchops in balsamic vinegar reduction, broccoli, couscous, and watermelon for dessert. Tasty precious. :-)

Erin posted the anchor watch list and I seem to have escaped. Woot!
So I get the night off essentially.
The weather bouy outside Halifax is reporting 25 knot winds and 3 meter seas. In Sheet Harbour you can here the wind high up but the bay is pretty calm, pretty strong rain squalls sweep through every now and then. At the moment the sky is broken clouds and bright blue skies between as the sun is setting.

Beautiful.


At our 5:00pm muster the Captain outlined the plan for the next couple of days. We are going to up anchor fairly early tomorrow morning then sail/motor off to Rose Bay which will take about 14 hours. There we will anchor again. Then depending on the weather we will head into Lunenburg aiming to be there around 10:00am on Wednesday.

After then everyone is to hang out to get the rest of the sails off her and the Monomoy back iin the water from the galley house roof. Then we are free to leave.

Not sure if I will move my flight up a day or two or not.

Will wait to make that call on Thursday morning :-)

Thanks for reading.

KJ