First, stages were rigged over the bows and stern, and José and a paint-pot went over the rail to add Lizzie Green to the many names which from time to time had decorated the schooner’s escutcheon. Not content with that, he had it painted on every other appropriate place⁠—the boats, the buckets⁠—it was as well to be thorough. Meanwhile, many of the sails were taken down and new ones bent⁠—or rather, old ones, distinctive sails that a man would swear he couldn’t have forgotten if he had ever seen them before. Otto sewed a large patch to the mainsail, where there was no hole. In his zeal Jonsen even considered lowering the yards and rigging her as a pure fore-and-after: but luckily for his sweating crew, abandoned the idea.