November
2005 - Africa Mercy:
There has
been a slow down in the ship yard, mostly because the subcontractor is
having problems. At the moment the ship is in its final dry dock and will be
in the water tomorrow, weather permitting. The next phase is just putting it
all together. The Caribbean Mercy is on her final outreach in Chickasaw,
Alabama helping hurricane Katrina victims. The ship will be closed down for
good at the end of the week. I have attached a message from Don Stephens,
Mercy Ships founder, at the bottom of this message explaining everything. It
is a new era for Mercy Ships, two old ships being placed out of service and
one larger ship handling more than twice the capacity of the other two
combined! What exciting times, even though it means living in England until
April, which is really not that bad. Now let me define bad for those of you brits reading this, I am from Florida, the land of more than 300
days a year of sunshine and 10 months of summer, ok need I say more! It has
been just above freezing all week, with rain! Besides the weather I am
currently enjoying the company of a friend of mine from Guatemala who is
here at the moment working on the ship. I have been friends with Felix
(middle person in picture below) since 1997 and am very happy he is here
experiencing a new era of ships for Mercy Ships. In the meantime, I am still
working on security systems, getting things ready, and helping the IT
department one day a week.
