So after lots of head scratching and trips to nautical supply stores, we figured out a solution to the flag dilemma.  Thanks Andre, but we couldn’t get Loki to walk the boom.  We bought a few pulleys and when we were at the store saw a whisker pole on the counter and voila!  We own a whisker pole.  We could use that as an extension arm, maybe.  So first we had to get it out on the catwalk without breaking anything.  The first oath in medicine and lighthouse care taking is do no harm.

The problem, old hooks and no rope and high in the sky

The approach with the new brass hook and whisker pole

Rethinking

So close but…

The team at work, photos courtesy of Kristi

A New Approach

Houston, we have contact!

Look at that!

Victory

Flying high

Back to shipshape

And then when our work was done I was able to return to my knitting.  I finished the shawl I had begun at the bottom of the Grand Canyon in April.  It’s a lot smaller than I thought but now I am going to stretch the heck out of it and see what happens.  After that, we have a lot of painting and housework to do

Finished shawl