- November - Saturday the 17th, Volunteer work day - 9 am to 4:30 pm; ALSO, Chesapeake Chapter, US Lighthouse Society Volunteer Work Day on Lightship CHESAPEAKE. COMPLETED.
Big thanks to Anne, Donna, Greg, Jeff, Heidi, Sue and Tony. Last
group work day of 2018, so Christmas lights were put up. Too cold to
paint so lots of cleaning, including the old NPS oceanography lab, main
engines #1 and #2 and other misc spaces. Completed major portion of the
old paint removal from the Fwd Range light. Helped the staff change
light bulbs on the Aft section of the friendship lights.
- October - Saturday the 27th, Volunteer work day - 8:45 am to 3:45 pm. ALSO, Chesapeake Chapter, US Lighthouse Society Volunteer Work Day on Lightship CHESAPEAKE. COMPLETED. Thanks to Anne, Greg, Sue and Tony. Rain cancelled topside work, but we accomplished plenty.
- July - Saturday the 21st, Volunteer work day - 8:00 am to 1:00 pm. COMPLETED.
- June - Sunday the 3rd, Tour group from the US Lighthouse Society - 11am to 1pm.
- June - Saturday the 2nd, Volunteer work day - 9 am to 4 pm. ALSO, Chesapeake Chapter of the US Lighthouse Society Volunteer Work Day on Lightship CHESAPEAKE. COMPLETED.
Thanks to Andy, Anne, Greg, Lauren and Paula. Plus Rob from HSIB
staff. We finished cleaning out the Bos'n storeroom and re-stowed it.
The improvement is outstanding. Scraped flaking paint in a Crew
Stateroom, installed a cleaned better working ships fan in the Galley to
help deal with the Out of Commission Air Conditioning. Ran a new long
length of electrical wire. Super productive work day!
- May - Saturday the 5th, Volunteer work day - 9 am to 4:15 pm. COMPLETED. ALSO, Chesapeake Chapter of the US Lighthouse Society Volunteer Work Day on Lightship CHESAPEAKE.
Thanks to volunteers Anne, Donna, Greg, Hobie, Jeff, Lauren, and
Paula. And Rom from HSIB staff. We got a great deal of work done to
deal with a peeling paint from the cold this winter, dug into the
forward storerooms to empty. clean identify and re-stow the items in
there, continued work on rehabilitating the forward range light and got a
few coats of "Safety Yellow" on the display drum for the Gasoline
storage container. Plus plenty of general deep cleaning. We could not
keep the Lightship looking so good without these dedicated volunteers.
- April - Saturday the 21st, - Volunteer work day - 9:45 am to 4:15 pm. COMPLETED. A cold start but warmed up and got busy with visitors. Got some electrical work done.
- March - Saturday the 17th, Volunteer work day - 9:15 am to 3:45 pm. COMPLETED. A number of repairs made to systems to return to fully functioning verses continuing rehab work.
- February - Saturday the 10th, Volunteer work day - 9:45 am to 3 pm. COMPLETED
- January - Saturday the 27th, Volunteer work day - 10:15 am to 3:45 pm. COMPLETED
updated 5 January 2019