Pier 9B, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Posted by Carolina Salguero
Photos by Carolina Salguero unless otherwise indicated.
The first volunteer day of 2012, Saturday, was blessed with GLORIOUS weather with temps hovering around 50 degrees and the sun mostly out all day. Project
Boom!
is in its final stages. Mike I-love-rigging Abegg tweaked the cable running through the boom's refurbished blocks, attached a block to the end of the boom, running its line through the fair leads used during the MARY WHALEN's days of carrying fuel hose. We'll use that block instead of the boom chainfall (so key for gangway tending) to do things like lift pallet loads of hard coal. We'll be getting 2 tons of coal once the boom is back up. Time to play Break Bulk! Better that than Break Back from carrying eighty 50-pound bags of coal up the gangway...
Today's goals: get shipwork work done, have fun (as always) and learn to make pizza to feed the crew. It's cold enough to want something warm at the end of the day, and deep inside the container terminal
TWIC
zone as we are, no take-out deliveries are possible. Today, we received a donated pizza stone from
by
A Cook's Companion
- thank you! - picked up by John Weaver and Karen Dyrland who popped by to deliver my new used Leica digital camera (photos here may improve) and put in an hour of work. Before the volunteers arrived
Smitty
, a wizard musician on the steel guitar, came and donated to the firewood pile, walnut offcuts from his cabinetry work.