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This Weekend at ELISSA/TSM
Welcome (or welcome back) to the Texas Seaport Museum and Seamanship Training on ELISSA. This is a weekly notice of upcoming volunteer-related activities at Texas Seaport Museum and ELISSA. It’s also posted weekly on our website.
Plan for this weekend: There’s a wedding this Friday night (5pm-midnight) and Becky needs some volunteer help to supervise the site. Let her know if you can help. Michael Wonio will be the foreman supervising maintenance on Saturday. TSM will close at 12:00 noon Saturday for a private event but there is work to be done in the morning, and in the afternoon there are projects to do on Santa Maria. While there won’t be a foreman on Sunday, if you’re interested in working, particularly on getting Santa Maria ready for the parade, let me know ahead and I’ll get you set up.
There will be a N.S.G. (non-ship gathering) this Friday at 5:30 at Joe’s Crab Shack at Pier 19. Join your shipmates for food and beverages and camaraderie. Mention ELISSA and Joe’s will donate 20% of your bill to the campaign to Keep ELISSA Sailing. Tell the other customers there to do the same.
Seamanship Training Class 2 will be Saturday September 24. Be ready for muster onboard ELISSA at 0900. Review material for class 1 and 2 in your training manual (see the syllabus for which chapters). Sunday September 25 will be a review session. You can attend the review session to get more personal instruction on difficult material or material you may have missed. You can also make up missed attendance by attending the review session (0900-1700). Also that weekend is the Shrimp Festival which includes a boat show (proceeds of which support Elissa), boat parade, and blessing of the fleet (Santa Maria will be the lead boat in the parade).
Handouts. At orientation and at Class 1, the following handouts were given out: Volunteer Opportunities, Seamanship Training Guidelines and Syllabus, Heat Stress, and GHF Membership form. If you missed any of these, extra copies will be in the rack on the workshop table.
ELISSA Seamanship training manuals are for sale in the gift shop. They are sold at cost to volunteers. A PDF version of the manual on CD is for sale for $5.00. Everyone should have a manual. The revised maintenance chapters should be ready to hand out to everyone by Class 2.
Maintenance this week: there’s been a lot of varnishing of brightwork going on, prepping the lower forehold to use as workshop space when Elissa moves to Pier 23 in December while our pier is repaired, and final touches are being put on Santa Maria to get her ready for the blessing of the fleet and boat parade next weekend. For anyone passing through central Houston: Don Nichols has some oxalic acid that needs to get down to TSM. If you can pick it up from him, let me know
Abandoned lockers are being cleared out to make room for new volunteers. If we haven’t seen you around for a while and you haven’t put a 2011-2012 sticker on your locker, come clean you locker out. If you’ve been storing a sleeping bag or other things on the locker room shelves that you haven’t been regularly using, please remove them so that the shelves can be available for those who are volunteering and need a place to leave their bag. After October 21 unclaimed items will be auctioned off. There are still some weekend parking permits available for UTMB lots at 20th street and 18th street. Sign one out if you can use one. Also, for those volunteering on Tuesdays, there is a discounted rate for volunteers at the Starbucks lot. Ask Judy or one of the Tuesday regulars about that.
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