Looking beyond… Then seeing it through…
A Day on Board TECTONA
| 0730 | Get up, help prepare breakfast at anchor |
| 0830 | Group planning meeting with Skipper |
| 0900 | Help wash deck then raise anchor and hoist sails |
| 1100 | Free time until On Watch |
| 1200 | On watch: Steering / Trimming Sails / Lookout / Learning chart-work |
| 1230 | Lunch while on watch. |
| 1600 | Off watch. Tea. Free time / catch up with sleep for 2 hours |
| 1800 | Help prepare Supper. Supper in saloon with other off-watch people. |
| 1900 | Help wash up. |
| 2000 | Group meeting in saloon with Group Leader |
| 2100 | Catch up with sleep |
| 0000 | Wakened to go on watch on deck. Steering / lookout etc. |
| 0400 | Off watch. Back to sleep! |
| 0730 | Get up, get ready to eat breakfast at sea… |
TECTONA is a large heavy old boat, and almost every routine activity needs several people to achieve, for example:
- Hoisting the RIB (dinghy) on deck.
- Washing down the deck with pressure hose.
- Raising and stowing the anchor.
- Hoisting, reefing, lowering the sails.
- Tacking the ship (turning through the wind).
- Making & clearing up meals.
- Cleaning the galley (kitchen) and heads (toilets).
- Steering and keeping lookout, supervised by Watch Leader.
- Mooring alongside in harbour.