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.
2 comments:
Who am I to tell a wise and “old” - your words, not mine - man to be careful when working in the heat. Heat exhaustion is a sneaky symptom which can easily surprise one afflicted with it. I have experienced it firsthand. Also, I do hope the fumes from the paint with little ventilation do not cause you issues.
I do look forward to seeing the end result if you will so indulge us.
I, too, have experienced heat problems here in the marsh. They came on quickly, almost like flipping a switch. No doubt a threshold of internal heat had been passed. That is why I go down early and leave early. Fumes from this paint are not strong and the hatches are open. I do appreciate your good advice.
This morning I painted the area around the port pipe berth. Tomorrow I clear and prep the spaces under and between the pipe berths. Paint there Sunday. I can see the end of this coming sometime next week.
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