We need to get a coat of enamel on the port side main deck. The toe rail needs to be primed all the way around on the upper deck including around the stair to the upper deck and the sheet metal in the stairwell needs to be primed.

If we have folks enough to attend, it would nice to lightly sand and enamel the upper engine room (Fidley) and also the galley.

The weather outlook looks great. Scott R. will have the coffee ready by Jove! Pat has an appointment on Kent Island at 9 am. but he hopes to be down by lunchtime.

The tug's gasoline-engine powered water pump has been repaired by a friend and long-tme business mentor of Pat I's gratis. Great going Pat!

Now we will have a working pump while underway and access to another for stand-by mode courtesy of our friends over on the TAMAROA.

A couple of us will be helping out from 11 am 'til 2:30 pm over at the Baltimore Waterfront Festival on this coming Saturday but most everyone else should be arriving at dockside for their issue of paint,brush and pail. Did I mention sanding blocks and paper?

We do hope to see as many of you as possible turn out for some of our up-coming spruce-up sessions as we get closer to the move on June 1st. That's the day we slip over to South Terminal of Locust Point for the Port of Baltimore Tricentenial signature event - a fund raising Gala.

We'd like to be ready when you come down to the tug (wearing some seriously old cloths to paint on) and we'd also like to have enough drink and doughnut holes on hand too. Please either post up here with your intentions or simply E-wire me off line.

We have engine room activities slated for the future but we'd like to accomplish the cosmetics for the up-coming Gala.

Stand-by All Lines! .. and have fun doing it too!
Walt