Today we went for our first sail. It was awesome. We went up to 8 knots! (Which for reference, is 9.20623558416 MPH.)[I looked this up in calcbot] We tilted about 20 degrees to port.

Before we achieved this semi-significant landmark, there was a large CRASH!! from belowdecks. My dad told me to go below and find out what it was. I looked below and saw nothing, and reported so to Dad. Later, I realized what made the crash was the open door of the hanging locker, as we were tilting.

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Today we finally got out of Lyman Moorse Boatbuilding. It was wonderful. We had a bunch of old British guys to literally shove us off. Later, we encountered a large storm with damaging winds and ping-pong ball sized hail. (We weren’t actually in the storm, I heard that off the radio.) We thought that the storm was going to hit us, but it didn’t.

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Today I  spent the day unloading Exit. There were very many random things, as you can see from this picture:

Everything (and we mean everything) unloaded into the Lyman-Morse rigging shed.

Here are my top 3 favorites:

1. An ice cream bucket full of assorted screws.
2. Not 1 but 2 out-of-date flare kits
3. 21 water filters that looked like rolls of kitchen string.

Pretty eventful and tiring, but not as much as yesterday, where I sandblasted stuff.

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Today, I made a short-term pet crab named “Crabby.” He didn’t move much, but yes, he was alive. I made a temporary home for him in Elsa’s shoe. He liked it there and immediately nested in the toe. I pretended to dump him in the water but secretly kept him in. After a close inspection, Elsa correctly determined that Crabby was still in the toe. After that, I chased her with him, and she ran screaming. After that, I really did dump him in the ocean. Thus ends this chapter in the life of Crabby Williams.

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