Day 10
15 July 2020
Sunset on another day in the ship yard. Photo by Thomas Scian
By Wednesday, 15 July, shipyard day ten, the major components of the SL radar maintenance platform, the bullhorn mounting bracket, and the whistle platform had been hoisted to the mast and tacked in place. On Thursday, production welding continued on all the pieces that had been tacked into place by that point. By Friday, 17 July, the replacement gaff support was made, and was tacked into place. The blocks in dry dock 5 were positioned for us, and the yardarm was stripped, blasted, and primed. The yard brace and middle ladder support were also installed.
In Albany, the gang completed a thorough inspection and repair of the aft gangway, got it painted and continued repairs to the transformer box.
Shipyard Life
Yardarm has been blasted and primed
Study some more!
Steve working on reassembling the bullhorn
Brendan with the old battle gaff support
The aft gangway is repainted back in Albany.
Hold in that spray paint.
Shipyard clutter
Jack and Brendan checking out what work was completed.
Get those lights down for restoration
Hoist that platform into place.
Ed keeps trying to bribe the office to get us out of here quick.
Bullhorn platform being raised.
Nice chow once again, Blair