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Day 1

May 2, 2017

Last night I headed down from Andover to Gloucester and got aboard the Roseway. It’s currently docked at the Gloucester Marine Railway. It was great getting reacquainted with the boat, and meeting all the crew. In fact, one of the crew members that was on my Ocean Classroom voyage, Cavo, is on the yard team. I had no idea he would be working on the ship and it was so nice to see him again.

Today I worked hard cleaning out bungs in the wood on the break of the deck. They proved incredibly hard to find, but with a mixture of intense sanding and scraping with a putty knife, I got them uncovered. I then used an awl to dig out the bungs to expose the screws, and then unscrewed them. I did all of this so we can take the wood at the break out so we can repair the caulking if necessary. Unfortunately, when unscrewing the screws, some of them got stripped, so I had to drill them out. I spent the rest of the day scraping up paint on the deck which proved to be rather difficult and ended up being much better tools than the ones I was using, but that’s okay. It’s exciting to get to know the boat better than I did before.



Work Log 10.5 Hours 7am-6pm, 30min Lunch Break
Total Hours: 10.5

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