I thank Larry for a link to an article about the wreck of Captain Cook’s ENDEAVOUR being found off Newport, Rhode Island. I have often sailed into Newport Island and I never imagined that the famous ship was at the bottom of the harbor.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/shipwreck-confirmed-captain-cook-rep/
I admire Captain Cook greatly. I have also sailed many of the places he did on his two and roughly half circumnavigations and am impressed by his seamanship and navigation into what was then the unknown. However, I do not think that salvaging and restoring the remnants of the hull worth while. Let her timbers remain where they have been for almost 250 years.
I am still painting GANNET’s interior. Sigh. In the fifteen years I have owned the little boat I have painted her interior two or three times. I am finding the job more complicated and arduous than I remembered. One problem is that I am painting this time in the wrong season. GANNET does not have good ventilation below deck and the summer heat becomes intolerable by 10 A.M., so I bike down around 7 and quit before 10. Another problem may be that I am old, which is true, but not an excuse I care to make.
Today I painted around the starboard pipe berth. Tomorrow I’ll paint around the port pipe berth.
I will still have the areas under and between the pipe berths and the interior of the small stowage compartment under the companionway and the bilge. Then a day of clean up. Then on to touching up and polishing the hull.
Three poems. I read my daily poetry before I bike to work.
The first by Hanshan.
And Andrew Lang, who was a Scottish poet and novelist who lived 1844-1912.
