Position: Alongside Leicht Park, Green Bay
Ship’s work Wednesday:
Paintings lots of bits & pieces
Clean quarter deck
Set up ship for public boarding
Ship’s work Thursday:
Penetrol quarter deck
Sanding & painting
Hoist ANN onto dock
Thorough clean of ship after yesterday’s dust storm
USCG inspection. Another lot of very impressed inspectors.
Training:
Up and overs with new hands
All drills and emergency stations
Weather Thursday: Partly cloudy and hot with a gentle to moderate southerly breeze
Captain’s Comments: Around 2000 Wednesday a front with 40-kt winds from the North hit with no warning and turned the area into a dust bowl with very restricted visibility. Dust came from adjacent gravel area and bulk facilities. We were tied up well, so no worries.
A sizeable floating dock broke loose upstream and came hurtling down the river at 6 knots (the water was pushed upstream by the strong northerlies and rushed out after the winds came back into the south). Quite a spectacle. The Coast Guard had their hands full corralling the tearaway.