January 2nd

This evening Jim Spurr, Tony Appleyard, Mary Stephens and David Bugge scraped blocks and hearts, sanded and primmed the spritsail yard and prepped the binnacle then repainted the inside of it black. Parts of the martingale were painted and Eric Standen continued remaking the cross-jack yard trusses. In the morning Ed Pratt and I will oil the binnacle, paint the spritsail yard and rigging then Ed will finish the last grommet Eric started and seize the blocks in.

Work continues at a steady pace and we will be finished with the rigging maintenance by late January. On the evening of Friday the 11th there will be a sail training committee meeting where we will be working on improving and scheduling our sail training program. Al Kempf is our first sail training committee chair, Marcia Flynn, Eric Standen, Tim Mattson and Pete Matthews will make up our first committee. Minutes of the meeting will be posted in some manner as soon as I figure out how to do it. On Saturday the the tiller will be refinished with a few coats of flat Bristol Finish.

Jim Schneider

P.S. If anyone has a snowblower they don't need we could use one at the Museum.