Volunteer Super Sunday gives Spirit of South Carolina over  90 hours of volunteer time; that was well spent.

Carter, Danny, and Chuck
fit leathers to the  fore gaff jaws.

Sunday was super in a number of ways. 15 people- including 3 new volunteers- I started to lose count by late morning. mustered amidships  at 0900 with the Chief Mate, or appeared later in the morning after Church. They were coming from everywhere, as far away as Summerville and Beaufort. Another five brand new Volunteers, (with due credit to their recruiter, Danny Johnson) joined the muster and pitched in on the four different projects that were going on deck and on the dock.  For most who, by now, were no strangers to the enormous work challenges of the Winter Maintenance Program, this was a continuance of numerous projects begun weeks ago.
Carter Edwards, Chuck Waring,  and Danny Johnson laid in with crew members, Matt and Daniel to cut, and fit leathers to the spars jaws and tongues

Baylor, Kevin, Morgan and Abby
 heads-down on scraping the cap rail

New volunteers, Carpenter,Morgan and daughter Abby, along with friend, Baylor, and fellow carpenter, Kevin Krug, all laid in on the cap rail, scraping and sanding down to bare wood both starboard and port sides, from knightheads to the Foremast shrouds.

Tim takes his first ride up
the Mainmast to scrape it down.

Another newcomer, J.T, along with Tim Geoghegan took turns being hoisted up the Fore and Main Masts in bosun's chairs to scrape down the masts in preparation for oiling and greasing.

Joe, Gary, and Ken fitting
the last mast hoops

Ken Fonville, Gary Pope, Darren Casale, and Joe Gorman started in and finished a project they started last weekend, installing the last of the mast hoops on both masts.

Wayne and Tony inventory and
 grease  ironwork and
 fittings for the spars

Wayne Burdick joined Tony Marchesani on the dock to inventory and stage for installation on the spars, all the iron work, collars, eyebolts, and brass side rails.  Meanwhile, below decks, Ship's Cook, Hunter was concocting a hearty hot lunch.
Shortly before lunch, College of Charleston Track and Field Coach, Amy Seago and to team members, Devin and Ellie came aboard for a tour and orientation with Volunteer Coordinator, Bryan Oliver.

Coach Amy and Track Team
 pitching in on the cap rail

As projects began winding down in the afternoon, Ashley and Robin Pennington, along with Stephen Collins, also came aboard for a tour, with promises to return, and possibly bring along some additional volunteers.
It all made for a pretty productive day. More pictures available on the tab "View Volunteer Photos".