bits and pieces

Hi Everyone-

Michael Bailey convinced me to cancel my flight home, so I will be in Norfolk for a little while longer. Melodie has been a great addition to the team and things are progressing as usual.
Tomorrow morning I am going to rent a truck and load it with a 600lb plate, which will be galvanized in Richmond.
We are also doing a thorough safety inspection for the exposure suits, vests and life rafts. We need to take the rafts to a specialist for inspection, repair and certification.
We are thinking about moving the ship to a different location. The idea was to move it to Nauticus, which is a tourist hot spot, but we will probably need a more industrial site for continued ship work.
Since we are outfitting the boat from the bottom-up, we have had to do a lot of shopping. Basically, we are ship workers by day and shoppers by night. Slowly but surely, the place is starting to look like home.
It looks like were starting to make it to the big time.
Congratulations everyone!
-Dave