needed to repair this damage 1b at the moment unknown. It may vary 
from one or two days to a week. The fire was evidently caused by 
carelessness on tine part of someone working on the anchor windlass, 
a repair Job which has been underway for over a month now. There 
have been several snags in this repair and it is not known how 
soon the Job will be completed. 
31 January 1963 
I called DESERET at 0800 this morning, spoke with Dr-. Peacock 
and advised him of the problems which had been encountered. He 
said that these things should have already been taken care of but 
that he would check on them. I also advised him of the weather 
problems which we might have and told him we would do our best 
to make landings but that we were subject to the ship captains 
softy opinions. Project leader than attempted to secure a second 
assault craft and motor for the project as it seemed highly desirable 
to have more than one motor and boat available, especially if we 
are to encounter rough seas in our work. However, the normal comple¬ 
ment for this ship is one boat and motor and COMSERVPAC did not 
feel that any except ions should be made in our case. The Captain 
tried to borrow one from another ship, I talked with Cdr. Dunlap about 
it, he referred me to Cdr. Seorle, he sa^.d he couldn't act without an 
order from Dunlap and finally everyone said no. I tried to purchase 
one from stock and found nut none were available here, I then arranged 
to purchase a 10 HP Johnson longshaft motor so that we will at least 
have two motors for the boat we have. The rubber craft is handling 
quite well here in the harbor and will apparently be all right If the 
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