Locker-bee

Work Notes: Dave has most of the sanding done. Now we wait for a break in the weather to add coats of varnish. Pardon me, to apply more ‘dusting compound’.

I went through the v-berth and all the forward lockers to see what we had, what we need, and what we can discard. A boat is full of odd little spaces that can be used to store things. The trick is to keep track of what is where. And to find the things that have moved down or sideways due to the variable action of gravity. As a boat moves through the water, up is generally the same direction as the mast. However, with all the rocking and such, things move and fishing something out of some odd corner it has wedged itself into is one of my tasks. A bit like a treasure hunt. The previous owner left all sorts of odds and ends aboard, some odder than others. It may be that he simply held on to anything that might be useful. One never knows.

As of this evening, I have gone through the v-berth lockers (safety harnesses, manuals, spares, through-hull, lubricants, lines), all of the below deck starboard side lockers (galley, cookware, supplies, hanging locker and tools), which leaves me with the anchor locker, port side below deck lockers, the head and the cockpit lockers. The engine compartment is a job all in itself.

I hardly left the boat all day, except to go across the boat yard to collect the laundry Dave started, so nothing else to mention.

More leaky skies, which is pretty common for this time of year here.