Saturday's Light Volunteer Turnout tackles aftermath of Betty

 On a typically sweltering, broiling Saturday morning, Four Volunteers braved the heat to come on down to the water and pitch in on something. As usual, Bryan, the first to climb down on the deck discovered that his agenda for the day was out the window.  

His first observation gave him a false sense of hope when he noticed the power cable had been taken out of its storage in the lazarette and run out from it's pedestal on the floating dock up and over the fixed doc and plugged in. That sent Bryan clambering down the saloon ladder hoping to switch on the powerful fan suspended over the saloon table and force the hotter sweltering stale air in the saloon up and out. The switch clicked, but the fan didn't.  neither were the two refrigerators.. All contents were warm. He didn't dare try the freezer.   So now the planned priority for the day shifted over to troubleshooting the power issue.  Help came walking down the dock in form of Tony Marchesani. While Tony stood by the pedestal to reset, Bryan tried a few sequence changes in the different Engine circuit breakers. Each sequence produced the same result, powering up the ship caused the circuit to break at the pedestal. 

Now Lance Halderman appeared. Using his recently acquired electrical engineering chops, he pointed out the possibility of moisture in the connections. Three cables, with two "extension" connections. A cursory disassembly revealed as a possibility of moisture. All disconnected and left to dry out. 

With that, By this time, Walter Barton walked in, in time for next visible issue  which had become apparent as Bryan and Tony looked over the side to inspect the handiwork of the team five days prior in resetting the Yokohama alignments on their respective pilings. What he saw made him sag a little.  There's always something!

Aft Yokohama with it's Pole "axle"
disappeared having shifted in three feet inside.

While the forward two Yokohama's remained in their position, centered on their assigned pilings, the The aftmost Yokohama had somehow slid forward, partly off it's pole by six feet, where it threatened to, once again, catch itself behind it piling rather than resting centered on it.

After end of the Yokohama with it's pole axis

 nearly all the way out.  

Apparently the combined action of current, and tide created a condition where the Yokohama, could almost float off it's pole axis, or at least sufficiently off center  to negate its use as a cushion again between the schooner and the piling. 

Using a spare 30 feet of line, the team rigged a lariat loop on the long end of the pole, snagging the loop against two bolt heads protruding out at the end. With a forward jerk, the team hoped to "shock" the pole an few inches at a time, back thru the center of the Yokohama so to expose the other end of  the pole at its  the opposite end. As the pole began to protrude a few inches out of the forward end, a second looped line snared the end, and upward pressure applied in order to take some weight of the pole off the axle, hopefully making it easier to jerk the pole a sufficient distance to recenter it in the Yokohama. With all three working together, one each on the two ends of the pole, lifting up, and the third with a long boat hook jabbing at the end of the Yokohama to force it back to center.  The team was partially successful in forcing back the Yokohama sufficiently that it now rested more centered on the piling.  A few more attempts and 3 long lag bolts into the pole to lock the Yokohama in place would stabilize it.

Now for the last pressing matter.. Up-rigging the foremast awning on port side. By late morning, the unshaded deck was a sort of hot skillet. Now the team shifted to lifting the bagged awning roll up out of the forecastle and staging it on deck.  Over the past month, various crew had become familiar with the up-rig process, benefiting from a detailed, illustrated instruction sheet, attached to the inside of the bag. In the next fifteen minutes the four had completely rigged up and tuned an effective awning, protecting and cooling the entire port side midships deck area.  After enjoying the shade, and rehydrating, the team  pulled up the gear and old sunbrella awning material that had been caught in the rain on Monday, and spread them under the awning to dry out, before restowing, which would have to occur sometime later.     Crew mustered off around 1 pm.