Day 40: June 9, 2015
Posted on: June 10, 2015
Location: 34 01.8 N 052 40.4 W Course: 308 Speed: 13.4 kts
Weather: Cloudy Wind: SW 18 kts. Seas: Moderate sea swell
I noticed that the wrong date was put on the blog yesterday, Day 39 so I apologize for any confusion. Today is, in fact, Day 40 and 9 June.
We have more clouds than sun today for the first time since leaving Cadiz. The weather is still quite favorable. Since painting was not an option, more areas were attacked with needle gun and chipping tools. Since it is always sunny in the engine room, not much changed for our engineers. Bravo is holding the watch while Alpha prepares for their exams. Charlie is on utility and Delta is working maintenance.
Photos & Captions provided by 4/C Wheeler and 4/C Thomas White:
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Cadet 3rd Mate 2/C Cameron performs fighting a fire with dry chemical agent.
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4/c Murray and 4/c Violette are testing breaker panels. After lunch today, a section of the ship was experiencing some electrical problems. Under supervision from the 2/c they were able to locate the problem.
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Chief Mate McAvoy is explaining what each piece of equipment is, and how each operates before commencing the training evolution.
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4/c Snow and 2/c Tardif are making gaskets for the Level Indicator for the Potable Water Tank.
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Chief Mate McAvoy is demonstrating how to fight a bilge fire with the Damage Control team.
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With less than a week left of cruise for the 2/c, 2/c Wells is all smiles as she finishes up plotting our chart back home. Earlier this morning we made our turn for the coast of Maine. We’re almost (980 miles) there!
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4/C Jelliffe is performs using CO2 fire extinguisher.
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2/c Spring is leading a fuel transfer. We must transfer fuel from storage tanks to settling tanks and day tanks at least once a day.
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