Batfish Deck

[Ctwilley]

Well, my plans for the morning of the 4th got cancelled so I'll see you all at the boat.
 Roger and I will be coming together but will both have to leave at about 2.
Rick, I have some things for you and need to update you about the education day.

[MWALLEN]

So I guess you're still stuck going to the formal dinner?   

Glad to have you and Roger out.  We may have about 7-8 then.

2 pm is no problem...we usually shut down between 2 and 3 anyway.

See you tomorrow.

Mark

[Ctwilley]

Yeah I'm still going unless I can fake an illness lol. Hmmmm???
I assume everyone meets at around 10? I guess we'll see you then.

[MWALLEN]

Yeah I'm still going unless I can fake an illness

    I'm sorry   

Rick usually opens at 9 AM for us so I plan for then.  I think Stephen will be there around 10.  Not sure about Mark S. or Sam.  I think last time Sam was there around 9:30 or so.

See ya tomorrow.

[Ctwilley]

I'll be there at 9 am sharp...maybe a little before. I have a small project to finish up and then I'll be joining you all on the deck...or lack thereof. 

[MWALLEN]

October 4 work day.

Had a good turn out.   My thanks to Sam, Leilani, Stephen, Mark S., Tim, Roger & Correy for coming out today.  Here is a run down of what got done.

Tim is working to fix the crews quarters.  There is a photo of his work in progress.  Correy I think finished the cold storage project and was taking down some stainless steel items from officers country.  Sam, Stephen, Mark S. and Roger worked on getting more deck removed.  Leilani gave the crape mertles (sp?) some TLC and look much better.  I began working on prepping the forward supports.  Really need to get the 40 locked down as more scraping has occurred since our last visit.  Anway, I've posted a few photos of our activities.  Special thanks to Rick for buying us mugs some pizza.

[MWALLEN]

Thank you for digging them out for me and taking a pic and dimentions of them

Darrin -  have them in my garage.  I will clean them up and take photos and measurements for you in the next couple of days.

Mark

[Darrin]

Thanks Mark,
was underneth the deck on Torsk this morning and yesterday and (not to mention above the deck) and I can only hope that we can fabricate them all to be able to go back in the deck where they belong.

[Travis McLain]

kind of off topic, but what is goin on in the crews berthing?

[Mark Sarsfield]

Tim Katzung created a bunch of rack support poles from scratch, welded them, painted them, and installed them.  They aren't 100% by the book, but they are way better than the wooden posts that used to be in there.

Currently, he is taking rack frames home and repainting them.  Three of them will be modified in width so that they don't interfere with the door to the crew's mess opening into the berthing area anymore.

Overall, I was very impressed with the work and progress that he has made and I told him that he'd get 10 BZ's from me...  if he had an account on here.

[Shipwreck]

God we have such a great team of volunteers!!!  THANKS TIM!!

[Mark Sarsfield]

Back to the deck, we would have ripped off a lot more of it, but we're at the point where we have to move the walkway to the port side.  Rick has to make a ramp of sorts to go over the A/C units, so that they don't get damaged.  Once that is done, the rest of the deck can be ripped up with a saw in probably an hour tops.

[MWALLEN]

But that doesn't include removing the bolts, does it?  The circular saw did get a bunch of deck up, but Roger and Stephen were struggling with removing the bolts that were keeping the non-cut deck still attached.

[Mark Sarsfield]

Correct.  That is only for removing the bulk of the wood.  Sam took the approach of chiseling the remaining wood once it was cut and leaving the bolts behind for later.  He was making pretty good progreess with most of the deck out of the way.  If we cut up most of the deck, just about anyone with some free time can remove bolts at their leisure without having to crouch under the deck.

[MWALLEN]

OK, cool.  Getting those bolts out will one day need to be a priority.  With 40+ kids there in 2 weeks, maybe we can get some cheap labor and get a ton of those out.