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Date:Tue, 8 Sep 2022 12:38:00 GMT
Clean up
Getting organized
Well this morning the Fan died... Cheap crap. It was a 120v fan from Lowes.
anyway.
We checked in on the Tennessee phone net 3.980 at 5:45 central this
morning. We talked to Harrel and the signal was great. I've tried to
check in on the normal morning and evening nets but the propogation is poor.
Mornings, however are great.
Yesterday we spent the day cleaning up and stowing food for our first shake
down cruise. Amazingly we got everything stowed in lockers except a few
cans that we are still need a home. Boats are majic. While
putting away the pans under the stove we found about 3 cubic feet of space
next the hull under the stove behind the pans! We also found about 12 cubic
feet behind the dinette under a drawer. We cleaned up and re-organized the nav station
drawers and hauled the last garbage out from our stay at the boat yard.
We organized rope and bosun's kit as well as whipping lines and putting away
safety gear. Sam cleaned and oiled the cockpit teak. It was a busy day and
today we are having friends over so we need to get going early.
When organizing a boat it takes longer than it seems because you need time
to think about where things go. I know it seems easy but it is not. If you
don't take your time and go slow you have an incredible mess. Everything
needs to be labeled and logged. You'd think it would be hard to loose
anything in such a small place but there are so many cubby holes and places
to stuff things that if you don't do this you'll never find it again.
We have a list of everything on the boat and where it is and before you add
or replace anything you check the list. At a certain point if something
comes on the boat something else must go off the boat. It's not just a
tetris game, it also has to be logical. And the things you need most often
need to be accessable easily. It takes disipline to always put things back
in their home and to check them off the list when they are used so they can
e replaced and put back in the same place. Also everything get's wet. So
no cardboard on the boat, No wrapping stuff in padding that will mold or
rot. No packing things so tightly that there is no air flow and you might
as well buy stock now in ziploc bags. When putting things in open wells you
need to be able to distinguish one item from another and so even after
putting individual items in ziploc bags you might use walmart bags to keep
everything seperate so you can pull out a large bag which contains 3 smaller
bags of say, sugar. Not only that but if the smaller bag breaks you want to
contain as much of the flower or sugar as possible. A broken bag of flower
in the boat would make a horrible mess, especially if it were not found out
till it started growing yeast...
We are waiting on the exhaust elbow. It is supposed to be done today or
tomorrow hopefully.
Here's a shout out to anyone from the TN phone net who heard Harrel announce
our web site! 73!
Steve