Roseway Senior Project

May 18, 2017 Today was my final day of working aboard Roseway for my senior project. It's a bittersweet day. On one hand it makes me sad to leave the ship, but on the other hand I'm excited to graduate soon. We started painting the bulwarks and waterways today which was very exciting. I'd been working on sanding and prepping them for a while now, so it's nice to see them getting done. The paint is a very bright red, and I'm not sure how I feel about it as the previous paint was more of a burgundy. Nonetheless, it is exciting to finally finish up painting the project I've worked on for so long.

May 17, 2017 I got back on the boat for the last time. I'm only down here for two days 😟 Today was all hands on deck and we were hand sanding the places that the orbital sanders could get at. After finishing sanding the deck we got to priming it. When I started priming, I noticed I was blinking a lot and my eyes were watering, so I decided it was probably best to wear some eye protection. We put two coats of primer on today, and we should be able to paint tomorrow!

This week was another challenging week of working aboard the Roseway. I learned a lot from working with all of the smart hard working crew on board. One of my favorite things I’ve found while working on the Roseway is how quick and smart everyone is at fixing things. For example, Captain Tom was using a planer to take up some of the paint off of the deck. Unfortunately, he caught the cord in the planer, and got it stuck, so he had to cut it. Not even five minutes after the cord was caught, Captain Tom already had it spliced and back in action. Another time, I was working on sanding the bulwarks of the boat, and was using a combination of a five inch orbital sander, and a mini triangle sander. The triangle sander allowed me to get at the corners and edges a bit better. Unfortunately there were very few 60 grit pads for the triangle sander, so I told Captain that we needed more. Another crew member named Richie chimed in saying “You don’t need to get more pads, just cut the fi

May 12, 2017 Today was a shorter day of working on the Roseway. It was my Mom’s birthday, so I wanted to be home for it. Of course, I still had a job that needed to get done though, so I spent the morning finishing sanding up the king plank as well as the break of the deck. This took a fair bit of time, but luckily I was able to leave in time to get back home in the afternoon. Finishing the sanding of the king plank and break, means that everything forward of the deck is now sanded. Because of this, Captain Tom wants to get it repainted with a new oil based paint. Work Log 4.5 Hours 7am-12pm Total Hours – Total Hours: 79

May 11, 2017 Today was yet another busy day at yard aboard the Roseway. I started off the day by helping “horse” cotton to fill seams that I had pulled up yesterday. To “horse” is essentially just a fancy way of saying whacking the heck out of it with a huge hammer (called a beetle) to push it into the seams. After the seams were horsed, I helped put the calking back in the seams (the calking is the same rubber seams I mentioned I pulled up in earlier blogs). This was a very messy process, and if I got any of the calking on my shoes, then I had to take them off or clean them so I didn’t track it all over the deck. It was somewhat unavoidable though, and I ended up with both of my shoes off at one point. After finishing up calking, I continued away at my ongoing mission to sand everything forward of the break in the deck. I quickly finished up the waterways and bulwarks as I had finished most of them in the previous days. Today I really started getting after the king plank, wh

May 10, 2017 “Why are you so dirty?” asked one of the many kids visiting the Roseway today. A crew member Ava toured some kids around a museum and also took them to the Roseway. I’m not sure if they will be sailing on it later or not, but it was cool to meet some young local kids. I was quite dirty from sanding all morning today, the latex paint built up around my nose and cheeks where the mask didn’t quite cover. It was nice to get a small break from the sanding and help kids aboard and answer questions they had. After lunch, (and the kids visiting the boat) I began pulling up caulking between the seams of the pine deck boards. It was quite similar to pulling it out from the break of the deck, but the seams are a bit tighter. After I had pulled up the cotton, a contractor named Richie followed along and filled them back in with fresh cotton, and used a huge hammer called a “beetle” and pounded it back in. After the new cotton was put in, new seams were made by putting rubbe