star island open-up, 2004

this page details the weekend that i spent out on star, volunteering my time to help out with the open-up projects. a lot of these are pictures of the ongoing work or big projects, so they won't make much sense without explanation.

friday may 07
	evidently ISSCO has one of those little funny-car go-carts. i don't know why they sponsor it, or why in hell it was on the dock, but there it was.
	a couple of shots as the ferry approached the isles. it took a rather southern approach, which means we sort of came halfway around Appledore to enter the harbor. i'm told this isn't all that out of the ordinary, but it sure felt strange.
	the star island welcoming party (such as it was)
saturday may 08
	the diesel barge showed up late morning saturday to drop off about half a load of diesel. we have to pump the diesel down the pier, up over the lawn, past the chapel, and down to the diesel farm on the back half of the island. pain in the ass, i'm told.
	all the furniture in the hotel lobby is still covered up in sheets. the open-up crew is scheduled to move into the hotel at the end of may.
	the floating dock gets pulled up onto the front lawn for the winter (along with the gangway and all the structures on the pier). looks pretty weird, don't it? the crew just finished repainting the bottom the day before this was taken.
	a little bit of roof damage to the summerhouse.
	mudding the new drywall in the dry paper storage room.
	some wreckage from the construction of the new fire escape staircase in the hotel.
	the new staircase, from the bottom up. this picture shows the old staircase from pel hall up to the snack bar, and the new staircase alongside it.
	a vertigo-inducing shot up towards the ceiling.
	first floor - the back of the snack bar, and the door into the dining room on the right.
	the bakery, minus the dividing wall. the wall on the left side of the picture (behind Linda Anderle, my tour guide) is also going to go, i think; replaced by a window for serve-out. weird consequences for Swett Ave.
	second floor - the top of the stairs from the kitchen into caswell, which are going away. (the storage closet at the bottom of the stairs will stay, but the stairs will go.) this shot is looking left from the staircase into caswell, where most of the walls have been taken out.
	the caswell staircase, whose fate is still undecided.
	back to the staircase, looking up to the third floor. the space to the left of the staircase is going to be turned into chamber closet space; if that works out well enough, then the guest room on the third floor that's currently used as the cleaning supply space might be turned back into guest space.
	looking from oceanic into the second floor of caswell. some kind of staircase or transition needs to be built here, probably going down into the room you can see on the left.
	top floor of the hotel.
	looking back down onto the staircase from the top.
	the fire exit rooms that are at the corner of the hallway on the east side are all going to be reclaimed as guest rooms. there will be some reorganization, since some of those rooms are being used as storage, etc. in the plus/minus count, all the current fire exit rooms on the east side of the hallway down by the caswell end will be traded for the new fire exit staircase, which eats the rooms on the west side.
	the new laundry room, which used to be the pel linen room. you can see the new wall that's been put in, which the new linen washers will go up against. the new drywall was mostly done; they painted it this weekend.
	this shows the old doorway from the linen room to OLR, which has been closed in, and the new hallway on the left.
	despite all the changes going on, some things never change - like shack deck. and the shack tree.
	the chapel showed a little bit of roof damage this winter as well.
	the vegetation was in a state i hadn't seen before. beside the lawn being in incredible shape (nice and green and lush), many of the bramble patches and shrubs were being trimmed back or taken out.
	my buddy, Kevmo, taking a break on the lindquist deck.
	the east wall of gosport is in not-such-great shape. as they took down some of the clapboards they found some damage underneath that will need to be repaired as well.
	a couple of pictures from the east end of the island.
	perhaps the last time we'll see the staircase on the side of Oceanic, as it's going to come down at some point once the new fire escape is finished.
friday may 21
	the ride out to the island was nice and calm, so i stretched out on a hammock on the back of the Pamela J. sadly, once we got out of the river and out to sea the choppiness picked up considerably, so i had to put it away.
saturday may 22
	the rest of these are pictures of the new deck that's going in between marshman and baker. the deck appears to be slightly wider than the deck in front of baker, so hopefully they'll expand that deck out as well (to match the deck in front of YPRU). and maybe chop off that weird corner by the Lindquist deck.