I arrived in Los Angeles a week ago on an Air New Zealand flight from Auckland. Tired and jet lagged, I just spent the afternoon in a hotel near the airport. Next morning I continued on to Milwaukee to visit Kent from Søren Larsen and his girlfriend Liz. They both work on the Denis Sullivan, a three-masted schooner that is kind of the flagship for Milwaukee. She was undergoing refit in Manitowoc, a little north of Milwaukee up along the coast of Lake Michigan. I started the first day with a paintbrush in my hand, patching red lead on bare spots of the underwater body.
The Denis Sullivan up the slip.
She seemed to be a well-built ship and she has the coziest interior ever. This is the galley.
Helmsman's position.
Happy first mate of the Denis Sullivan.
People working everywhere. Here are bosun Liz and captain Tiff. Clearing seams from old oakum, before caulking the hull.
Peter, shipwright. Caulking.
The ship was actually lifted, not slipped up. Pretty heavy duty equipment.
There were two ways to get on board, climbing a pilot ladder or using the scissor lift. The head seen in the scissor lift is attached to deckhand Lime.
Deckhand Wynn operating the scissor lift, looking sooo relaxed...
I went to see the maritime museum in Manitowoc in the afternoon. USS Cobia, submarine from the WWII is a part of their exhibitions.
Foredeck canon of the USS Cobia.
We all left Manitowoc on the day before thanksgiving and went to Tiff's house in Milwaukee to eat pizza, drink beer, play pool, etc. And on the very Thanksgiving day, last Thursday, I got on a flight to New York.
1 comment:
Love to travel. Welcome back to US while on work. Equipments are very helpful for your job on the ship.
-nico
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