Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Spring Cleaning & Maintenance

 No pictures this time. I've been doing some cleaning, decluttering, and servicing.

Servicing was the diesel - oil, fuel, impeller, anodes. All good now.

Cleaning - really trying to get rid of some of the sand/dust/grime. I made serious progress with it, but am impressed by how hard it it to do. My floorboards need some protections - varnish or wood oil ... I'll see.

Decluttering - Well. It's a lot easier to take things on board than to get them off. I've made a dent, but my car is nearly full of stuff. Mostly 'useful things I might need someday'. Except that some of them have been on board for about ten years. And some are sort of duplicates - how many 'handy pieces' of ply or hardwood do I need?

I found a better place to stow the hose and the hoselock portable shower: In the semi-inaccessible, awkwardly shaped, and permanently damp locker outboard of the sink and under the counter top.

There is, as ever, lots more I could do ...

Summer Cruise ... (1)

So. I don't know whether trying to plan a summer cruise is really a separate entertainment from actually going sailing - there seems to ...