Light Volunteer Turnout this week salvaged by focused effort of a few.

 Last Saturday's Volunteer Day was one of the lightest turn-to's in month's . I hope it's just chalked up to the Father's Day Weekend.  Nevertheless, The Day was saved by Nate Mack, Mikell Evatt, Logan Day and Jamie Wert. First they laid onto the Mainsail boom; sanding down all 52 feet of her all round, to remove the gray weathering and prepping the spar for an initial coat of Deks-Olje D.1 preservative.  At this point the boom only needs another 8 coats of D.1, followed by 12 coats of the Varnish D.2, and she'll be ready to up-rig. 

They weren't done yet.  Waiting for the D.1 to soak in, the team selected one of the new, stiff, unwound, brittle brand new mast hoops, and choreographed  a slow, deliberate, measured in inches-at-a -time,  winding the hoop onto the mast, then cinching it tighter with come-along's, awls, screwdrivers and vaseline. That's another one down, and five to go; but it was a good day on deck, and it sets up everything for a strong start on the next Volunteer Day, on July 1, not for another two weeks.

Spirit of South Carolina's Draft Website Still needs a look-over.

this one at  www.spiritofsc.info

You'll recall in the last Blog entry I invited everyone to walk thru the draft of the ship's Website and provide some feedback, suggestions, criticisms, comment, trolling, anything.  Judging from the amount of feedback received, I gotta be the best dam website content developer there ever was, or no one ever received the email with the invitation, or nobody bothered to read it. 

Cmon.. 

We have an opportunity to drive the look, feel, themes, and content of the most significant social media platform for our schooner.   a lil help!