Quite a bit has happened since our last construction update. First off as you can see, the name and home port is painted on. So instead of people pointing and saying “look at that strange looking fishing trawler boat”, they can now say “look at that strange looking fishing trawler boat named Kosmos, and they spelled Cosmos wrong too, people must be pretty dumb in San Diego.” Sigh. Ok, hopefully rather than “strange” the adjective is “magnificent”. We know Kosmos does not look like most other boats, and we happen to think Kosmos is looking quite seaworthy right now. Of course readers here know why it is “˜K’ not “˜C’, and we are pretty sure that our boat name will lead to some interesting conversations.

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Each time we visit Kosmos, something else is done. Sometimes it is an obvious change, such as the white mesh covers up on the windows:

Other times you have to look in places such as the lazarette. Err, the where? We were going to link to Dictionary.com for the definition for the less nautically savvy, but it gave us this definition: “Lazarette n. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy).” Ummmm…  Continue reading →

Taking pictures of the engine room did not really do it justice. An engine room video seemed better. What do you think?