Military Salute Regatta Competes with Volunteer Day ; Some of Us get in both.

 Yesterday morning, 3 June, welcomed aboard two new volunteers, Jamie Wert, and Logan Day, both U.S. Navy NMM's (Nuclear Machinist Mate) currently in school and waiting for their next Boat assignment in December. They're pretty motivated about spending their Saturdays in culture-shock, transitioning from 21st Century Nuclear propulsion technology to 19th Century wooden ships. 

They came aboard just in time to effect repairs on the schooner's plastic sheet covering some repair work that had been cut away for examination during a shipwright's visit.  

Two full-hull models, top a rounded deep-water hull,
below, a flat-bottom indicating inshore
-shallow water design.

While Jamie and Logan were hanging over the rail duct taping and cleaning, Sandy Jackson came on board with a bundle covering two 30-inch full-hull(not half-hull) wood models for us to examine, and thus began a 1/2-hour of self education in forensics of traditional ship design.

Close up of hull stern showing section
 and diagonal lines.

One of the models showed distinct measured out section and diagonal lines indicating it was ready for transcribing dimensions to a molding-full sized framing. We're looking for a marine architect that might shed some light on the provenance of these models. 

As far as Saturday's Volunteer Day happened, the three of us were it, and even then, only for only an hour.  We were in conflict with the annual Salute to Veterans' Sailing Regatta, hosted and produced by CORA, (Charleston Offshore Racing Association) and Veterans On Deck. 

Danny Johnson's Dehler 42, waiting for her crew
to board prior to the Salute to Veterans Regatta.

At least five of Spirit of South Carolina's regular volunteers, Ken Fonville, Danny Johnson, Laura Johnson, Wayne Burdick, and myself, plus a few others I missed, were all involved in that event, either as organizers, skippers, or crew members.   While Ken was running the whole show, Laura, Logan, Jamie, and myself were crewing on one of the sailboats in the Regatta; Laura and I on Danny Johnson's "Trinity", Logan and Jamie on "Flatiron", and Wayne skippering his own "Marion Maid".

Thanks to David Brennan, and John Hart, who came aboard mid-week and figured out how to install one of our new mast  hoops, we did make some headway. We learned not to remove the bolts from new hoops until we were ready to install on the mast.  Left unfastened, these new hoops started unbending out to their original state, posing a challenge in muscle-ing them back into a circle. John was here only a few days, laying over for his run back north to New England area, living and working from his sailboat and taking on the occasional delivery job.

Our progress against our maintenance punch list has suffered primarily from weather delays and associated shortage of hands to advance the important projects.  Hopefully, on coming weeks, the Hurricanes and monsoons will stick to the weekdays, and Mother Nature will grant us favorable weather for Saturdays and any other volunteer sessions during the week.