If that gets full of lobster, he starts to put the lobster into a black bucket, until that wooden holder is empty again.There are 4 boxes in it, and the one on the far right, holds all of the rubber bands i band the lobsters with!
Uncle Art, set up a new thing today on the boat, called a hot tank. It is basically just a big plastic bin of water, but you tap into the engines pipline in which flows very hot water. You put a metal tube in the middle of the pipline and put that metal part into the plastic bin and while the hot water is flowing through the regular pipline, it goes through the metal part, and then, that heats up the bin full of water since metal is a very good conductor of heat.
The bin of water is so hot, that it starts to steam. Uncle Art said that if i wanted to make a can of soup or somthing like that, you could just put the can of soup in a bait bag, and leave it in the hot tank for about 20 minutes, and then you could have soup on the boat! I thought that was really cool! The real reason for the hot tank, is to get the green stuff off of the buoys. There is green stuff on the buoys sometimes, that is not seaweed, but its smaller and really sticks to the buoys, so you just soak the buoy in the hot water for a minute, and it comes right off! We had to do that to a lot of buoys today!
That is a picture of it! At the end of the day, the hot tank was filled with really dark green steaming hot water, and he had to pour it out on the boat floor since he couldn't lift it over the edge. When he poured it out, it spread all over the boat of dark green, steaming water! It looked really cool, but it smelled HORRIBLE because it had all of that hot green stuff from the buoys in it.
Today, there is a wedding reception going on back behind our house in a big field. So... We needed to vacuum, clean the bathroom, and the kitchen, and i was going to tidy up the living room. Some of the chefs are going to use our kitchen for making/ preparing some of the food that the guests eat since they are in our huge field back yard.
You can see the field and then the white tent is where the reception is going on. I took this picture standing right outside my house, so it is a walking distance away.
I got some pictures of what Uncle Arts buoys look like. Everyone's buoys are different, so that everyone knows which buoys are there's and know which ones to haul because they are designed a special way. Uncle arts buoys are a special kind of green, and black with a yellow or black stem.
This picture, is his buoy attached to the top of his boat so people know that hes not stealing traps.
Theese, are all of his buoys, in our yard piled up with rope on each one, ready to be put on a new trap if Uncle Art wants to put out any more traps!
I got some cool pictures of the long skinny islands that are in maine, when we were out on the boat. Usually, we went really far away from land to haul, and we cant see the land usually, and its foggy. But... Today, it was really sunny and nice out, AND we were near islands and it was perfect outside. Perfect day for a weeding!
We got back to the house at 12 Noon, so it was a really quick and short day! My mom and brother get here today, and they are renting a cool house up in Rockland!
I hope you enjoyed my blog, i will be posting a new "Learner" page in an hour or so so check it out!
-August 8, Saturday
