A great way of soothing the spirit. She now has Bill Wellington working with her and Knobby and this should spread the workload more equitably. The engine room crew are performing preventive maintenance. One group decided to see the Typee Valley made famous by Melville. In Herman's day the fear was that cannibals lurked in these islands.
Today is an all-hands work day.
We have people everywhere chipping and scraping paint. The 10,000-plus miles we've traveled have taken its toll. Some of the crew are below decks stowing a tropical wood we picked up earlier that we will be retrading later in the voyage. We had our farewell party for Lynn Oschmann, Lori Roberts, Jeannine Bourdaghs, and Pat Lynch. They are flying out of here to Tahiti and thence back to the States.