This past Saturday the 19th, promised some action for Volunteers who came aboard this past Saturday. Weather temperature lowered dramatically to mid 80's, while the normal dreary prediction of rain, warned us only of brisk winds and blowing, high humidity.
Six new volunteers, the largest group since last year, came on board, in addition to four more regulars, to move a couple of maintenance projects forward, and , for a nice change, concentrate the morning on deckhand skill-building.
New Volunteers from the College of Charleston, Dylan Outlaw(gotta love that name), Channing Smith, Jimease Bonaparte,and Maddy Balga, joined up with Michael Evatt, and Jack Burton, for a quick orientation and ship's tour before dividing up for some basic deckhand skill building. Meanwhile, Danny Johnson dived into the last stages finishing his gangway steps. Ken Fonville finished the bedding and re-installation of two lifeline stanchions on the port side. As the New Volunteer tour and administration completed, Dan Maurin and Layne Carver split them into two groups for practice in basics of line-handling skills. To cap out the morning, Madison Pulley took over and, led the new volunteers to the dock in front of the Maritime Center for a demonstration and practice with dock heaving lines. Look for some of Dan Maurin's photos to appear in our Volunteer photo album, at the tab on top.
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