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Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2002
Open Ship and 'Stars in the Spars'

 
Expecting light crowds for our 10-2 Open Ship (on this wet weekday morning) we planned a number of maintenance projects on the ship for today, like various scrape-and-paint projects. In the mid-morning the skies cleared and a steady stream of visitors-65 by day's end-began to step across the rail. Many were travelers from afar-even one group from the UK!-and asked many great questions about the boat, her history, and life onboard. We displaced our scrape-and-paint project on the aft cabin top to display the historic photographs, which entertained kids of all ages. Crew rotated through talking with visitors, sneaking in a little work on the boat, and eating lunch at lunchtime.

At 1400 we broke into full-tilt scraping a priming of the aft cabin top and paint touch-ups on the rails, cleaning some of our educational science equipment, and catching up on other work around the boat. Crew were stood down til 2000 hours when we prepared for the evening program. Daisy Nel, Capt. Stan and friends played a few sea tunes before and as we hoisted the foresail up for showing LEGACY, a documentary about the Gloucester fishing schooners featuring our own Capt. Amanda Madeira and other local experts on these finest working sailing vessels.

At about 2130 we struck the fore and stood down from this very full day!

Program Coordinator: MaryHelen Gunn
Captain: Amanda Madeira

 

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