With all the moisture from our breathing, and the wet fog that hangs all morning, the mold has been running throughout the whole boat. One day it is here, and the next its there. Just when it finally quit smelling like bleach, I find more. I find that if I run the Espar Heater, and keeping everything open, it stays dryer. The canned goods are sweating their labels off, so I am starting to write everything on the cans, and should remove the labels, so the paper doesn't get in the bilge. But we really don't have the paper coming off, , yet.
The weather is getting better, and the Cap'n is pretty happy about working up top, and it not raining, or the wind isn't blowing everything away. One of the projects was servicing the winches. *so much to be said there* I didn't realize how many pieces were inside one of them.Another task our Cap'n has taken on is converting our hank on Genoa into a furling system. This means he gets to climb the mast. and that in itself is a whole new story.
While we had some good weather we decided to flip the boat around, and stern in. This is good practice for all different wind directions, and it also dried out the starboard side, to help with the moisture issue.I sanded the entire cap rail,and all the teak on the forward deck, and got a fresh coat of Cetol to get us thru the summer. Got that out of the way so there will be more playing this summer, less work, hahahaha like that ever happens. Being a cruiser means you get to work on your boat in exotic places.
bunkmate
