Winter Maintenance Steady Progress

Bryan and Dan finshing the last 220 grit
sanding round before breaking for lunch.

Saturday, December 7th granted a day of great weather over the Charleston Maritime Center Docks, enough for Volunteers, Dan Maurin and Bryan Oliver to team up on the Sapele Half-Round trim around the Forecastle Hatch. Together, they scraped and sanded the trim down to bare wood, and tacking it with 6 successive wipe-downs to clean out the  microscopic sawdust and debris left on the surface. After a break for lunch, Dan and Bryan followed it up by wiping 8 coats of Deks Olje D.1 oil over it.  By 1500 hours the work was done, just in time for a threatening squall to pass overhead. 

Winter Maintenance to couple with Deckhand skills sessions over the Winter.

Spirit of South Carolina has accumulated a good sized punch list of projects that should be completed over the winter period. Most of those are perfectly suited for Volunteers to lay into, for a few hours, half day or whole day. Larger projects, include the moving of the Foresail, and Mainsail up the dock over to Liberty Square so they can be spread out an inspected for repair issues prior to transport to the Sail repair guy. Scraping and sanding/ oiling the Fore and Main sail booms.  

Volunteers, you watch the posted Volunteer Calendar, or text Bryan the Volunteer Coordinator for days on which to advance the work, and also advance their deckhand skills.     Look for a few of those Saturdays to turn into Harbor Training cruises, if sufficient volunteers  respond. 

Check the Volunteer Calendar, for Available Saturdays, or weekdays, when you can come down to the docks and pitch in with the crew.