Uss Constellation update

[nirgal]

Latest E-mail.....

The volunteer riggers of USS CONSTELLATION will be working this Saturday,
12 June, from 8:30-12:00. We're continuing our project of adjusting the
main and mizzen lower shrouds and deadeyes. Please join us as we attempt
to complete this work for the voyage to Annapolis in the fall.

As usual, beginners and new folks are welcome. No skills or prior
experience needed; we can teach you everything you need to know.

Please write me at kevinz@charm.net if you have any questions.


I'm going Saturday! :)


also attached is this:

Also, Paul Powichroski of CONSTELLATION passed on this information about
volunteer opportunites at Sailabration, the tall ships festival in
Baltimore's Inner Harbor:
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:49:39 -0400
From: Paul Powichroski <pgp@constellation.org>
To: Kevin Zembower <kevinz@charm.net>
Subject: Sailabration Volunteering

Hello volunteers!

The folks at Sail Baltimore are looking for volunteers for the Tall Ship
event later this month.
Following is their information. Volunteer time for this event gets
applied to your Constellation hours toward your shirt or turnaround trip
passage.

If you are interested, please reply directly to Sail Baltimore and let
them know that you are a USS Constellation volunteer.

Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of USS Constellation

The majestic fleet of international tall ships will gather around
BaltimoreÕs waterfront for hundreds of thousands to witness as we
celebrate the 150th anniversary of the launch of the historic USS
Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy. Plans
include public tours of visiting tall ships from around the world,
entertainment, ceremonies, receptions and a spectacular July 4th
fireworks finale.

When June 30 - July 4, 2004

Where Tall ships will be docked at locations all around the Inner
Harbor and Fells Point.

Who Sail Baltimore is partnering with Baltimore Office of Promotion
& The Arts and USS Constellation to produce the event.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!

We need assistance in the following areas to help produce the July 4
Sailabration. Volunteers will receive a t-shirt and credential to be
worn during their shift.

Information booth
June 30-July 4 (Wednesday through Sunday)
Event info booth to be located in front of the Baltimore Visitors Center
Daily shifts available from 10am-2pm or 2pm-6pm
Two people will be on duty per shift
Need individuals to hand out event program, answer questions, etc.

Crew tour chaperones
July 1 (Thursday) 9am-3pm bus tours to US Naval Academy
July 2 (Friday) 8 am-5pm bus tours to Washington, DC
Need an individual to ride along as a chaperone on each bus (6 buses
total each day) to and from destination

Crew party
July 3 (Saturday) 2pm-7pm
Located at Rash Field following crew sports activities
Need set up, clean up, beverage servers, ID checkers, security, etc.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Sara Miller at Sail
Baltimore, 410-522-7300, to sign up.

Paul G. Powichroski
USS Constellation Museum
Phone 410-539-1797 ext. 448
Fax 410-539-6238
e-mail pgp@constellation.org
www.constellation.org <http://www.constellation.org/>

[HoneySuckleBlue]

I am so glad you are still going! I'm super jealous!! I hope most of the people are cool...*sniff* and you have a super time...*waaahaaa*...without me!!!

*runs off the field and into the trees*

(j/k I can't wait till I do get to go though!!)

Are you going to do the fourth of July one as well?

[nirgal]

So now we sign on at the same timetoo eh ;)

I wish you could come too! Ill scope it out though... one of these days you've got too.... wish I knew a baby sitter......

I'm not sure on the forth yet, I'll have to read the details a bit closer. I'm not into being a bus chaperone ;D

Did you read on the website that they have cannon fireings occasionally?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Oh I definately intend to get my butt up there, this is just a freak weekend where everyone I know is doing something....

Hehe we're connected at the bellybutton now, Marie is like that too! We can't get over how much of our daily dynamics are shared.

Did'nt see the part about the cannons!! Would'nt that be fun??! I'd forgotten how exciting doing new things was!!:D

...bus chaperone, blegh!

[nirgal]

"If I wasn't a gunner, I wouldn't be here, fire one" "If I wasn't a gunner, I...."

It's on the website, I think they are doing something this month.. I look later...

Pull too hard, they'll go from innies to outies right quick:D

[nirgal]

That was great!
We rove a lanyard onto a deadeye (about 12" dia)for one of the mainmast shrouds (3"dia), following the example done by pros on the foremast. The first hand memories of how to do things the old way are lost and have to be re invented to a point. Book knowledge vs experience.

[nirgal]

Then we climbed up the ratlines into the main top (about 60' up) and repositioned 2 large 4 purchase blocks, so we could tension the shroud, and eventually all the shrouds :)
Need more muscles to heave on the line though. We are going to run the tail from the lanyard, up to the top then down through another pulley on deck and heave on it.... Chanties?
:p

When everyone else left, I climbed back up to the tops and spent the afternoon sitting in the sun, daydreaming :P

[HoneySuckleBlue]

That truely looks to be a facinating way to spend a day Greg!! Was it strange hanging out up there , in the middle of Baltimore's inner harbor? The pictures make the boat seem so out of Time with everything else:)

I am soo glad you went...and you got to hear the cannon go off too!!

Are they doing anything in the next two Saturdays??

[nirgal]

:) It was so cool, sitting up in the rigging of a 150 year old ship while the modern world rushes by and take pictures, though I looked down the harbor most of the time ;)

I know they are doing rigging on the 26th, and the web site says they need volunteers every sat., they have a phone number I'll call on Mon. and see what's up... you'd love this :D

[nirgal]

When are you off to the hinterlands?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Probably the 27th, no train :( (booo!!) we'll be driving...but hotels are fun, we'll do some bed bouncing anyway *sigh*...buncha slackers, lol.

So I'll have this Saturday and the next...

[nirgal]

Well yay and boo, road trips are fun too... a trip anywhere that's not here.... bed bouncing and magic fingers :P send post cards ---take pictures .... Ive nver been in the Dakotas.

I'll check and see whats up next weekend, I know he 26th is good.. :)

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Bagh...I don't wanna go!!!

Much drama will be afoot...

Since we are driving I'm taking the canoe...if they need me I'll be on the lake, or at the Peace Gardens (that place is actually kinda cool)

If you've never been to the dakota's you are'nt missing much...it's mile after mile of not a whole lot of anything...towards Montana it's kinda interesting you get the plateaus dropping off into these interesting ravines that I would looove to take some shrooms and go camping in...but we are'nt going there. We are going to the Turtle mountains on the Canadian border which are alot like where Marie lives. Summer cottages and a Lake.

Let me know what you find out, I'll be able to find a babysitter since my sister is back if Rich says he has to work again.

[nirgal]

Drama's overrated, for a way to use energy, I wish it wasn't that way for you :( I've never been north, since my free time to travel time always in the winter. I read a book written by a distant cousin that covers some of our family history.... turns out my grandfather lived in a sod house that his brother in law had built in Montana at the turn of the last century, they started a town out there (which is now a ghost town)... shortly after it was opened to settlement.... I want to see Yellowstone and Idaho someday.....
~movin' to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tychoon.....

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Well, one good thing is Rich's little brother looks just like Dave Mattews, hehee and he's really fun. I hope he goes.



Rich just had a very complicated childhood.



On one trip out his grandma Hanson showed us pictures of their families homestead...I guess the animals and the people all lived as one back then. That was just a few generations bact too, that's got to smell real nice:D

I guess I'm just not looking foreward to feeling like I have to impress people. They are a very critical lot and I have to watch what I say around them...


Once you start getting to the western side of the state things get interesting...we went out to Medora once and did some horseback riding and stuff. It is beautiful, the plains start to just fall away leaving only these buttes and endless sky. They're not much on trees out there...but that's good if you are looking for wild life down in the hills, sounds strange to say but the hills are inverted:)

Aside from driving to Alaska that's the furthest West I've been, though I'd like to go and see the Red woods and the coast of Washington state...

[nirgal]

oooooo
The Redwoods are breath taking! And the west coast of Oregon all the way up into BC is beautiful! Excpt for a few places where it levels out.... I'd love to live on Pugit sound north of Vancouver, BC, it's sooooo beautiful :)

[HoneySuckleBlue]

I think it would be simply amazing to be next to such a large tree...to feel so small and new to the world in comparison.

What took you out there?

[nirgal]

That was M and I's first extended adventure back in the winter of 85. We took a van cross country rt40 west seeing sites, and spent a month living in it in Malibu. I worked at a nursery there, selling plants to celebrities (I was told).....

...The Redwoods are worth a trip all in themselves! Imagine a tree 40' across, 200ft tall and around 2000 years old.....just touching it is a rush

..and a whole forest of them!!! 'course they're not all that big, but big enough....... it's a sacred place

Antithesis gets to live there, lucky.... even if she's never kissed a man ;)



~~~And yes , there will be something to do this coming Saturday, 8-12.....probably not in the rigging, but maybe we can get up there anyway ;)~~~~
I'll give you the details latter....

[nirgal]

Bump
Wanna Go ;)?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Yes I do!:)

I want to visit Sis too, she's told me about the coast line over there and it'd be so cool to go hiking with her. My five year plan (barring huge catastropies:p ) includes a drive back up to Alaska and it'd be nice to drive out to see her and then take the ferry over to Ak. since I've already done the al~can.

[nirgal]

You've done the Al-Can......wow, that must have been amazing!

I saw the Giant Redwoods in the sierra, I Haven't seen the Coast ones yet....I want to camp among them, think they mind a camp fire...... :eek:

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Yes *sob* it was the single most awe inspiring trips of my life...I can't even begin to convey how huge the mountains were and what seeing them did to me inside...all I know is I wanna go back so bad it hurts!!!


http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/typesofland/images/m1_365x248.gif


Having a campfire in the redwoods would be very creepy indeed...I have heard they can move when they want to.:eek:

[nirgal]

The Ent's live.... if you listen closely, you can hear the trees whispering.....
~~Yes *sob* it was the single most awe inspiring trips of my life...I can't even begin to convey how huge the mountains were and what seeing them did to me inside...all I know is I wanna go back so bad it hurts!!~~
:D
I love topography, the flat lands don't have a spirit that I can loose myself in..... but the Mountains :)
Young mountains...
It reminds me of New Zealand..
http://www.danciprari.com/images/worldtrip/new_zealand/nz-fox-lake-matheson-mt-cook-6-600.jpg

and the old, around Asheville NC...
http://www.hunterslodge1.com/mtns.jpg



are you ready for a mini adventure on Sat. :)

[HoneySuckleBlue]

YEs, I'm really looking foreward to it! I've never been on a ship that big before, and I'm happy to get to spend some time with you again:)

I had a really weird dream last night that I think was induced from the anticipation...snoop dog was in it and he was doing a revival at this club we'd gone to...it was like an American Legion hall or something, but but we were partying there...I slipped off back stage to help and I just remember him coming out in theis Lime green with black trim pimp suit and giving a motivational speech...it was strange. Snoop dog, lol first time I've dreampt about a rapper!

[nirgal]

I've never dreamed a rapper....... that could be considered a nightmare :eek:

a picture is easier..... the space where it says pay parking is an open lot with no attendants until after 8, it's easy to see......
Just past a big hotel and opposite harbor place...

The ship address is 301 E Pratt st.
I can meet you there :)

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Snoop has a nice kinda roll with it vibe...far as I can tell. I find him soothing, though I don't listen to any of his music...though not out of choice, or mebbe it is. No decision is still a decision, no?

...are we meeting at the parking lot across from the ship then, at 7 am? Jeeze, well atleast we'll miss alot of traffic.

[nirgal]

Yeah, that's the best I can come up with, in my sunburnt mind ;) (but I'm always open to suggestions).....
Next week, the rigging workshop doesn't start 'till 8:30...... and we'll have a clue about how long it takes to walk and all that..... won't have to get up so early...... but I'm up early anyway :) and you have a new car to cruise in :D

I don't listen to enough radio (can't stand the comercials) to have an opinion on rap, nothing about it has grabbed me so far.....it's like music without the music...
Is having no opinion the same as deciding not to decide?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

I don't have a better plan, so we'll stick with yours Greg:) Can't believe it's almost tomorrow!!

It'll be fun getting up that early, I love the weird five am color the sky gets!

I can't wait!

[nirgal]

Yay, let's do it! .... I'll be wearing a greg suit! the secret word is ....rabbit ;)
I love the early morning :D