Trip report - Day 2, morning
Nov. 2nd, 2005 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithWoke early the next morning, and rolled out of bed (literally). Didn't want to hit my head again. Hadn't slept too well though, with my bags on the bunk, there wasn't enough room to move my legs around. When I did sleep though, I slept well.
Quick dress and then up the ladder, to discover something I noted a few times. When you're below deck, it's difficult to know what's happening above. So I ducked back down and come up again with my coat on.
The first task of the day is to clean the ship. We got to clean the deck. This requires a metal bucket with a rope attached, that is lowered over the edge (upside down so it doesn't float) and when it's full, you haul it back up and throw water over part of the deck. Then the other person sweeps it down with a broom. Repeat from stern to bow.
Once that's done, there are sails to set again. I had a chance this time to go aloft to untie gaskets. It's fairly straightforward. On either side of each mast there are, this would be easier with a photo of the ship, wouldn't it?
Right, note the "ropes" that run diagonally from just above the lowest yard down to just beyond the side of the ship? They're actually metal cables, with ropes running horizontally, making a rope ladder.
So you attach the tether on the safety harness to one of them, get up onto the capping rail and swing around so you're standing on the "ladder". When you climb, you move one foot or hand at a time, keep 3 points in contact at all time. Every few steps, you unclip the tether line and hook it a bit further up.
As I said straightforward, except that it moves and it's higher than it looks, until you reach that little platform just above the yard. Then you have to move from the ladder to something else, usually a little rope thing that you're supposed to stand on. Climbing, yes. Twisting around at a height until a different footing, maybe not. Later. :(
Once the sails are dealt with there isn't a lot to do, except watch the coast, that of which is visible.
Now, it turned out that during the night we'd gone down past the Iron Pot (the island that marks the start of the Derwent) and then come back, so we head south and past the Iron Pot again
and continued south.
Back there in the cloud somewhere is Hobart and Mt Wellington.
Looking down one side towards the bow, you can see the three cabin compartments, well the entrances. The lower right structure is one corner of the aft cabin.
Still heading south into the greyness, and rather slowly. There is very little wind. It was averaging about 3-4 knots, I think.
Have you noticed the 'net' under the bowsprit? It's like a giant hammock, with nothing above you but sky and nothing below but water. You can lie back and watch the coast drift past, or watch the bow of the ship rising up and down, with an occasional 'jump' as she goes up a bit higher. More of these once the motor comes into use.
I was out there later in the morning as well, putting the gaskets on the jibs. It's not that easy to move around on there and I still had my coat on, so I got a bit hot. And it was a long time between breakfast and lunch, so I guess blood sugar level dropped.
It wasn't too bad, although I snuck down and took another of the travel sickness pills, and then watched the coast
and handled the sails, as required.
As we went further south, the coastline became more interesting.
Bruny Island
Then we had salad rolls for lunch. At least they weren't croissants (have I told that story?), they still make me feel a bit queasy. Rolls just do it when I'm already feeling off. Anyway, I had some of the soup and the contents of the roll.
But after doing the washing up (one watch did it each meal), I gave up and went off to have a nap.
Quick dress and then up the ladder, to discover something I noted a few times. When you're below deck, it's difficult to know what's happening above. So I ducked back down and come up again with my coat on.
The first task of the day is to clean the ship. We got to clean the deck. This requires a metal bucket with a rope attached, that is lowered over the edge (upside down so it doesn't float) and when it's full, you haul it back up and throw water over part of the deck. Then the other person sweeps it down with a broom. Repeat from stern to bow.
Once that's done, there are sails to set again. I had a chance this time to go aloft to untie gaskets. It's fairly straightforward. On either side of each mast there are, this would be easier with a photo of the ship, wouldn't it?
Right, note the "ropes" that run diagonally from just above the lowest yard down to just beyond the side of the ship? They're actually metal cables, with ropes running horizontally, making a rope ladder.
So you attach the tether on the safety harness to one of them, get up onto the capping rail and swing around so you're standing on the "ladder". When you climb, you move one foot or hand at a time, keep 3 points in contact at all time. Every few steps, you unclip the tether line and hook it a bit further up.
As I said straightforward, except that it moves and it's higher than it looks, until you reach that little platform just above the yard. Then you have to move from the ladder to something else, usually a little rope thing that you're supposed to stand on. Climbing, yes. Twisting around at a height until a different footing, maybe not. Later. :(
Once the sails are dealt with there isn't a lot to do, except watch the coast, that of which is visible.
Now, it turned out that during the night we'd gone down past the Iron Pot (the island that marks the start of the Derwent) and then come back, so we head south and past the Iron Pot again
and continued south.
Back there in the cloud somewhere is Hobart and Mt Wellington.
Looking down one side towards the bow, you can see the three cabin compartments, well the entrances. The lower right structure is one corner of the aft cabin.
Still heading south into the greyness, and rather slowly. There is very little wind. It was averaging about 3-4 knots, I think.
Have you noticed the 'net' under the bowsprit? It's like a giant hammock, with nothing above you but sky and nothing below but water. You can lie back and watch the coast drift past, or watch the bow of the ship rising up and down, with an occasional 'jump' as she goes up a bit higher. More of these once the motor comes into use.
I was out there later in the morning as well, putting the gaskets on the jibs. It's not that easy to move around on there and I still had my coat on, so I got a bit hot. And it was a long time between breakfast and lunch, so I guess blood sugar level dropped.
It wasn't too bad, although I snuck down and took another of the travel sickness pills, and then watched the coast
and handled the sails, as required.
As we went further south, the coastline became more interesting.
Bruny Island
Then we had salad rolls for lunch. At least they weren't croissants (have I told that story?), they still make me feel a bit queasy. Rolls just do it when I'm already feeling off. Anyway, I had some of the soup and the contents of the roll.
But after doing the washing up (one watch did it each meal), I gave up and went off to have a nap.
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Date: 2005-11-04 03:23 am (UTC)