Resolve

I resolve to not assume that everyone finds boats fascinating.

Today I spent some time on "Resolve" an ocean going tug, now considered something of a classic vessel.
Still at work like so many classics of her age.
Beautiful, functional, largely analogue.

I could describe standing between two 7,500hp diesels.
Leaning against 150,000litres of diesel.
Being unable to lift a shackle pin from a shackle let alone the shackle itself .

She is American.
The company was terrific.
The coffee was excellent.

I also went on a yacht in her fourth year of refit and talked to the Grecian tasked with laying the teak decks. Watched a Maltese shipwright making her hatches and deck hatch doors. Considering the weight of paint and the fact that if you make 14 locker units to fit across the hull and then get the individual handmade front door frames painted each edge gets 0.8mm of paint applied which means each face is 1.6mm too wide, so when there are 14 of them you end up with 22 mm too many. That's only if the paint applicators don't realise that engraved "X" means "No Paint" ....... It's only made really, really bad because each edge is a complex shape of rebates for extremely slim inserts to ensure that any movement is not accompanied by noises. The rebates themselves are also rendered too narrow to accept the inserts made for them.

Precison I've never seen before in hardwoods.
Some descriptors of painters I'd never heard before, either.

I heard numbers with many, many zeros.

Remarkably restrained, eh?