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| A face of sheer determination |
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| and utter confusion |
Today was an eventful day. In the morning, Grant attempted to seize control of the vessel, but quickly found himself overwhelmed by the controls at the helm and gave up.
In the afternoon today, we got to observe what happens in the engine room during maneuvering with a pilot, the engineers all just stand there, and assisted with shutting down the main engine. Then we changed a filter in a cooling water system, and Grant was asked to dump a bucket of water into a hole that went to the bilge. He succeeded, in getting almost none of it in the hole. I laughed. We're in the second port that we're filling up at now. Its about an hour south of Houston, and we're going to be here for a day or two before leaving for Panama (so probably more like four days because or regulatory bodies).
