TSSG 2008 Voyage Log

We are in our second week into school since the voyage and have a lot to get done. Monday morning all the girls were in the classroom at San Francisco State no later than 8:35. Nettie gave us assignments that will need to be done in the last few weeks before the program ends. Things such as creating a tall ships newsletter, planning student presentations, turning in journals entries, studying for our navigation exam, and completing our oceanography project. The day ended with little meetings with either Nettie or Christine to discuss ideas for the write-up of our oceanography research.
The next day we met up at Hyde St. Pier and walked over to the Sea Scout base to meet with John Heid to start building our boat, which is going to be a 12 foot rowing skiff with a sailing rig. It was exciting we learned how to use power tools the safe way as well as what certain tools were. Unfortunately, there was only four girls because everyone else was doing their STAR testing at their high schools. With the four of us we managed to get the transom(which is the back part of the boat)created using a sline, and the side boards cut and glued. After a long day in the boat shop, we had boot camp.
Wednesday we were at SF State where we got our assignments to do our History and English essay. We were given the rest or the day to finish work and start on the essays. When it hit 3:00 we took a walk around Lake Merced. We were supposed to run (Molly and Nettie ran) but we didn’t bring a change of clothes so we stuck to walking.
Thursday and Friday we were down at the park building the boat. All the girls made it on Thursday, and it was amazing because we got a lot done. Making the stem (forward part of the boat) sanding the spine, planks, transom,adding the chimes and attaching the side boards. What an accomplishment.
To end this week, we all met at Nettle’s house for a potluck and to watch the video footage that was taken on the voyage. We will be editing this footage to make a documentary film.

By: Marleina Benavente