"Study for Sea Chest Becketts #1" Practicing decorative knotting techniques

I should have a full update/blog soon. I managed to forget my laptop's power cord at first, and I must admit I'm really too tired
to do much documenting. Life is so full every minute that I just live it. I've learned so much, and actually am pretty competent
as a galley steward and deckhand. The crew: Captain, Sarah, Cameron, Steve, and now we have Monika too. I love these
people. We work our butts off and swig rum. Really.

Mostly we do daysails from 10-3, serving lunch. We do Lobster dinner cruises from 5-8. We do 3-day cruises, like twice in one very long week to the Newport Tall Ships Festival. Docking in Block Island (great place, great bar, great harbor entrance), anchoring off Point Judith, and mooring at Newport. One was a Pirate theme cruise. I'm serious. It's just what you think. We did a 3-day "Whale Tales" cruise with shanteyman Don
Sineti singing, playing music, and talking about the history of whaling. We docked in Greenport and Sag Harbor on long island on that trip and had the most wonderful swim stop en route.

The transit from NYC to Baltimore turned out to be an adventure- a pretty nice storm hit us with lots of wind, high seas, and daggers of rain around 3am and didn't let up much until sunrise. I was at the helm when it was just starting, and it was odd to feel the boat suddenly not responding to my course corrections. Mate Steve took the helm, woke Captain, and the crew prepared to drop sail. Easier said than done in the dark with winds that make it hard to hear.

Much more in a few days. I get off the boat and move to P-town for the residency Oct. 1 and I'll have a big update soon after!

view from Block Island's SE Light		These were the Clearwater days. Now we furl with four of us.
Mystic Whaler in New London fog		Block Island's SE Light
Sarah and Cameron tending the foresheet		transit from NYC to New London
me aloft on the main		me at the helm in super thick fog, kinda scary
furling the fore with Rowan and Monika		lots of jellies alongside at dock in Greenport
		C and C Galley Factory
new flag haliards, my second marlinespike project		Race Rock lighthouse
		me leading jib furl
		me steering to Shelter Island 8/27
Monika polishes our brass bell
little Gull lite		shanteyman Don Sineti
new peak jig		my mug. Handle decorated in sein twine cockscombing
schooner Pioneer		Pride of Baltimore 2 about to fire a cannon salute at us
Cameron and the crab feast		We happened to arrive the nite before the bianialle turning around of the USS Constellation. Tugs are bringing her out of Baltimore's inner harbor for the turn.

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