Century Club: Jen Hendershot

I was the first mate for one cruise on Eternal Hope.  We leave Rod 'N' Reel and go out onto the Chesapeake.

Today we took the Look Far out, somewhat late.  We took the boat to work on the sail rigging.  It doesn't seem normal, like there is a wrinkle in the sail in a way that prevents it from stretching out correctly.  Unfortunately the winds were so light, but that also helped because we were able to change a few rigging bits while the sails were up while we basically floated.  We did this on the West River.  It was unusually quiet with little traffic, which was nice to do what we had to do that day.  We had a nice spider visitor, an impressive dock spider.

Another day another dollar.  I was first mate on the sailing charter.

This day we went back to the boat and cleaned her up, checked her lines, and in general fussed all about her.  This day was spent trying to understand the elecrical particularly, which is unusual.  The 12 volt outlets wouldn't work and the external shore power wouldn't either. I figured out a work around and in general learned a ton about marine electrical systems.  Today was particularly frustrating.  Everything I did was a bandaid.  Had to head out and to West Marine.  Again.