Here's what the Next several days are holding for us Volunteers on deck.

The following priorities will be advanced, over this week, before the spars can actually be swayed over onto the deck.

Several heavy bullhide Leather pieces, used for anti-chafing must be replaced, new pieces cut, shaped, and renailed around the jaws, and other selected areas of the spars on the dock.  

The masts must be scraped  from foot to  cross trees and then coated  with linseed oil (currently in progress. That requires crew riding a harness or bosun's chair up the mast with a scraper. 

All ironwork that supports the spars or connect to rigging having recently receiving a coating of black, will be sorted and reinstalled on the spars.

 All Spars will receive extra coats of varnish and white gloss;  as will all deck(varnished surfaces) furniture. 

We might start scraping and sanding down the Cap Rail

 Running rigging, currently stowed or coiled, will be broken out, inventoried, and staged for re-iinstalling on spars. 

 An equal priority for Capt Dan, is building out a competent Volunteer crew.  As  time allows, or individual projects reach a slack point in the project plan, the Mate will organize for deckhand skills training, refreshers, and practice.  So review your Deckhand Skills Checklist, or print out a copy from the link on this Blog.  Those are the black and white skills to be demonstrated by deckhands, Volunteer or Paid.  

At some point next week, Capt Dan will identify a time window for Mar 1 for rigging up the spars for swaying back onto the ship and installing Sails and  running rigging.

Every day of the week offers an opportunity for advancing the work of the ship, or/and  building on your deckhand skills. On weekdays, check with Bryan to make sure somebody will be there to work with you. On Weekends confirm yourself for the Volunteer Day, or we might work out a training opportunity with another Volunteer as Coach, when the ship has a day off.