I'm sore, blistered, and burned, so I'm feeling bullet points today. Let's begin!
- Yesterday (8/6) was our last day of downtime; at 5pm, we took on passengers. This consisted of last-minute repairs, several touch-ups, and a trip tot eh barn to stock up. I was tasked to covertly liberate bacon, which quite frankly sounds like the job I was born to do.
- The Coast Guard arrived, and valiantly guarded the coast by spending forty-five minutes debating the semantics of a bylaw on schooner guardrail height regulations. Guess somebody's gotta do it.
- While tying down line, Obi-Wan appeared from, as near as I can tell, absolutely nowhere and showed me half a dozen knots applicable to the situation. "More to learn." he said encouragingly, clapping me on the shoulder and then vanishing into the ether.
- After taking on the passengers, we shoved off and made great time into the Penobscot Bay, none of which I saw because I was looming over the galley sink, doing dishes. Oh well.
- Adding to the list of faintly horrifying yet appreciably awesome jobs given to the galley apprentice in between dishwashing and floor cleaning, I've been tasked with climbing onto the boom (the long, bottom beam on a sail that runs parallel to the ground) and pulling the sail backwards as it's lowered, holding on as it viciously whips my face twenty five feet over open water. Cool! I'll throw in a pic of it when I can.
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