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Day 7

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, which is misleading because it’s not one plank, but multiple. I made substantial progress today sanding the king plank(s) and should be able to finish them up tomorrow morning!


Work Log 11 hours 7am-6:30pm 30min LB – Total Hours: 74.5

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