Brasso - a seaman's best friend
(Mr. Volk polishing the ship's bell) |
Swabbin' the deck - "Please don't let
Mom see me doing this - she'll get ideas!"
(Rob on work detail) |
"Captain, I'm ready to water the lawn!"
(Kevin Marcus washing down the deck) |
"Maybe they won't find me here."
(Jack desending from the Mizzen deck under the Bimini top) |
"Hey, the signal flags test will be a snap with this secret cheat sheet."
(Kevin Marcus, aka "Special K", illustrating the flags during our communications lecture.) |
"All ashore that's goinin' ashore! That poor little motor!" |
"My gosh, it's a pink sea creature!"
(Mr. Volk, ahem, "clambering" aboard after snorkeling) |
"See Mom, proof that I took a bath on our sailing trip."
(Chris treading water) |
"Ya' say me head makes a nice buoy? Arrrgh!"
(Mr. Marcus demonstrates his proficiency at swimming) |
"Don't make me jump! I promise to polish brass better the next time. Ahhh!"
(Chris jumping off the mizzen deck for joy) |
"I bet this cannonball dive will cause a tsunami (tidal wave)!"(Jack jumping off the mizzen deck). |
"You call that a cannonball? I'll show you a cannonball...." (Mr. Volk waiting for snorkel gear to be handed uptopside.) |
"Bless the creatures of the sea, Bless this lunch, called Mac' and Cheese."(The crew saying the Seabase Grace before lunch.) |
"I bet this line holds up Mr. Roth's swimsuit! Heave-Ho!"(The crew hauls on the toppin lift halyard to set sail.) |
"See Mom - the guitar lessons paid off! 'Tiny bubbles...in the sea..."(Jack at the evening song and .Skit session aboard ship.) |
"Since the jib sail is a triangle, there can't be wrong way to put it up. Right, Emsy?"
(The foresail crew - Mr. Marcus, Kevin, Andy and Chris learning the proces of setting the jib sails under the direction of First Mate Emsy.) |
Two of the most patient and fun-loving sailors this side of Popeye the Sailorman! (Captain Del and First Mate Emsy with their ship, "La Pecheur D' Etoilles") |
"Hey, Mom! Emsy baked me this cake on a pitching sea. Can you top that?"
(Rob and crew celebrating his 16th birthday with a cake during shore lunch on Wednesday.) |
"OK, if we say the Seabase Grace onboard ship, what do we say on dry land?" |
"So this is escargot? Why would anyone pay so much to eat smelly snails?"
(Kevin Marcus cleaning snail shell treasure to bring back home.) |
"Boys, today's job is to re-pitch the ship's hull. We'll start by hauling the boat ashore." (First Mate Emsy, who kept us out of trouble and made sure we functioned as a crew should. She also has the best voice in the Bahamas!) |
"A pirate's got to eat but how do you eat beans with only a knife?" |
"I haven't played dress-up in years, what a great idea" "I like this blue sequin vest...It's almost like the one in my secret closet back home!"
(Mssrs. Marcus, Volk and Roth in their pirate getups.) |
"Arrghh, I say. Where's me flagon of Pepsi?"(Mr. Volk keeping an eye on the crew.) |
"Does the cabin boy really have to sleep in the bilge?"(Chris as "Scurvey Pete".) |
The navigator and ship's lone literate"(Rob Simon as "Blind Bart".) |
"You put port hand in...You put your port hand out..."(Our intrepid leaders leading us in the Nautical Hokey Pokey.) |
"C'mon guys! I promise I won't burn dinner again!"(Chris Simon swinging into the sea.) |
"Agh...ugh...agh...ugh...agh...ugh. Me - Tarzan, where's Jane?"(Andy Roth swinging into action.) |
"So that's a conch? And you eat it? Where's the nearest McDonald's"
(Mr. Roth watching Emsy show us how to prepare conch. (And it was pretty good :) |
