Spirit of South Carolina Settles into a Dockside Routine.

 With our Georgetown cruise behind us, the crew and officers settled into a dockside routine of maintenance, oriented short-term on addressing issues known and discovered in the course of our off-shore passage, and additional items to resolve which identified in a recent Coast Guard Inspection for our upgrade COI to 200 miles Offshore.  That rating will come in conjunction with her next  haul-out and dry dock, which will also include unstepping the masts. Date/Time/ and location for all that are being negotiated as we speak.

And so four of us mustered at 0900, this last Saturday morning to start up the routine. Tony Marchesani appeared after a long hiatus, as well as Lance Halderman, Walter Barton, Ryan Smith, and a little later, Carin Bloom. Mate Eva, reviewed the current Punchlist and added a few priority projects to it, which, of course went to the top of the list. 

 The Mate was charged with identifying needs of the ship, to make her totally seaworthy, and self-sustaining. And so our first project(s) was to conduct a hardware inventory of everything, starting at the three primary large lockers on deck and dock;  Rope Locker, Tool Locker, DockBox Paint locker.  That took up half the morning.  Before we lost volunteers to other commitments, Eva organized the crew on deck to raise the foresail about five feet, shake out the deep reef that had been previously set in a week ago, than line up to harbor furl. With the foresail now neatly burrito'd, the crew lined up on the mainsail to do the same.   

With those priority projects finishing up, Mate Eva departed to make some hiring and procuring calls and do other Mate stuff, Bryan lay below in the Saloon to lay out lunch.  Bryan had brought aboard some brisket and Southwest beans, all smoked and slow-cooked the prior afternoon, so spread that out with sandwich buns in the Saloon  along with some HT potato salad.  

Following lunch, while Walter hung back to clean up in the Saloon and Galley, the rest of the crew gathered in the cockpit, as Bryan dove deep into the lazarette to pick thru and identify all the contents, shouting them up to Lance who duly listed them, then consolidated all the lists in the Saloon for the Mate when she returned. 

It made for a fairly productive day, Next day projects are going to include identifying and patching the air leak in the tender, inventorying the remaining lockers, 

I'm anticipating there'll be other inventories to be conducted;  all the berth locker contents, for power tools, and hardware, 

The SignUp Genius now includes Volunteer options to sign up on weekdays , in addition to the regularly scheduled Saturdays; the intent being to enable individual volunteers to come aboard and take on an individual project.  By signing up ahead of time, Mate,Eva, and Bryan can coordinate and assign an appropriate project.

So C'MON DOWN!  There's plenty to do.