We had another short stay in Seattle this time. Technically it was just about 24 hours, but since we arrived and departed around 0100, there was a lot of time spent sleeping.
Only Justin was around this weekend, so we tricked him into having lunch with us and then at his suggestion signed up for the Seattle Underground tour. I won’t say much about it for those of you who may one day want to attend it, but I definitely recommend it as well. There was a lot of interesting history and bad jokes there.
And yes, we finally made it to San Francisco! Originally my buddy Shreyas Chand of Berkeley was going to come with us, but then he had to do work, so he just met us at the ferry dock in the morning for a little while instead.
The ferry ride was exciting. And also frustrating because we go right past our ship, but then have to go on land and drive way around to get back to it. Fortunately we had good luck with that this time. Although no cab we called for ever showed up, we managed to hitch a ride with a visiting day worker in the morning and jump on a cab that was dropping someone off at the ferry terminal in the afternoon and trick him into driving us back.
Anyway, there were many good ship-spotting opportunities today. Our terminal was very busy.
there was just a conveyor belt dumping scrap metal into this one’s cargo holds
(what is AS?)
aw yeah Matson + approaching containership
“no don’t take my picture”
We don’t have any enclosed lifeboats so I’m pretty jealous
Manoa glamour shot #1
does the IMO number need to go in the seaterm project? because if so, don’t worry I got it
The back of our house
“maybe we should ask the ferry guys if we can be their cadets for a day”
Manoa glamour shot #2
such containerships
much traffic
wow
#3
just in case
Don’t worry, all this is just the outbound journey.
We arrived at Pier 41 about 45 minutes later, which put us directly into the middle of tourist-land. The first thing we did was walk over to Pier 39, which is right next to the aquarium and has been flooded with sea lions.
Some things about sea lions:
-they smell. Bad.
-they’re really loud.
-they do this a lot
Unfortunately, we didn’t really have time to do the full aquarium justice so we decided to skip it.
Back to tourist-land.
I found my new favorite carousel ever.
We stuck around on the pier long enough to have lunch and then wandered off in search of very important things which you will find out about soon. On the way, we got distracted by the maritime center.
how could you not get distracted
a paddlewheeler
+ the remains of a paddlewheel
NOT part of the maritime center
also not part of the maritime center but SUPER CUTE
super weird shaped boat
And now, for very important things…
so fat. so worth it.
Ice cream at Ghirardelli Square was basically the #1 objective of our trip today. Having completed this, we wandered in and out of some art galleries (just looking, no thank you, not buying $2600 paintings, ok) and back down to the ferries and Pier 41.
Important detail
We found the cable cars although we did not ride on them.
Here are the submarine and the Liberty ship we did not visit today because time and $$$$.
And now it is time for the ferry to depart.
Revisiting our old friend, Sailboat Guy:
Pilot boat!
a high school field trip happened to be on the same ferry as us, both ways
And here we are at Containership Row
And that concludes our California time today.
On the shipboard side of things, we now have another new Chief Engineer. This brings our total up to 3 for this seaterm.
We have still been mostly working on our projects with some significant progress made. However, today we took a break from this as the new chief enlisted us to make 15 or so tiny boxes out of Plexiglas to cover buttons in the engine control room so that people won’t push them by accident. I won’t say much more about it except that by the end of the day I was ready to commit a superglue homicide. If it takes 10 minutes to dry, sorry, it’s not superglue.
I also have to report that the molasses pump room spider has disappeared. Apparently he took offense to the 2nd engineer, junior, and wiper cleaning the strainers today.
We are now approaching our last Oahu stop. The chief mate may be having us work with her for some time in port so we can see some deck operations.
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