The Ship’s Log

Happy St. Patrick's Day! The crew is celebrating with a traditional dinner (shoutout to Pip for taking on the daunting task of cooking enough corned beef and cabbage rolls for a bunch of sailors), but before that, we have the usual laundry list of work: more serving...

The starboard aft waterway timber is back in place. Yesterday, Team Carpentry broke out the epoxy and lag bolts to turn three shaped and scarfed pieces of Douglas Fir into one very big piece of waterway timber. It's a more complicated version of what we did to make...

Niagara has a foredeck again! We installed our shutter plank (the last plank to be fastened in place; also affectionately called the whiskey plank) this afternoon. It's a little weird to have a deck again. Now we actually have to open the forepeak hatch to do our brig...

Niagara's  carpentry A-team is officially here! The usual suspects (Adam, Alethea, Amy) and the visiting shipwrights (Andrew, Andros, Aaron) spent the week so far working on the starboard waterway timber, the fore fighting top crosstrees, and the foremast itself. The...

Team Carpentry got a new member this week! Drew, a shipwright who's worked with Niagara for years,  arrived from Seattle to help us rebuild the waterway timber and wrap up some other winter projects. As of today, we're still in the "making splinters and breaking...

We're still cleaning up from Wintertime at the Maritime, but it doesn't feel very wintery out—the temperature rocketed into the sixties today. We took advantage of the warm weather to do some work on the bowsprit, which has been waiting patiently on the plaza since we...

Out on the plaza, preparations for Wintertime at the Maritime are underway, and I've heard rumors floating around about building some specialized equipment for ice bowling.  In the woodshop, Team Carpentry has been making blanks to replace some of the pinrails on the...

Next week will be a busy one at the museum. This coming Friday, February 17th, is our fourth annual Wintertime at the Maritime, and Saturday the 18th is our next sail training day. So stop by on Friday for ice bowling, hot drinks, and a funky hat competition, and then...