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Back home, though the ground is still still pitching and
rolling beneath me, I am on Terra Firma once again, in my own backyard! (Aug.
14) |
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Everyone wants know how I got so dark along this rainful
cruise. I tell them that it's not a tan -- it's rust! |
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Today I was finally ready to confront an actually rolling
and pitching deck again, my land-legs having returned to a semblance of
normal sometime yesterday. Chip Ahoy needed to be aired and dried
out, and the sun and wind seemed perfect for the task. It would be
perfect for sailing too, had I the ambition -- but I'm lucky to have had
the ambition for this task alone. (Aug. 17) |
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The first task was to get as many things removed from the
cabin into the cockpit as I could . . . |
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. . . right after I opened the forward hatch wide and got
circulation blowing through. |
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I opened up and moved everything else as much out of the
way as possible, at least moved it from where it'd been moldering for a
few weeks. |
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No hatch or compartment went unopened
in my determination to air and dry out the cabin and compartments, and
their contents. |
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The drop-down panel behind the aft dinette seatback,
opening to the cockpit's port side lazarette with its clothes container
within reach, now empty. (The "All-Purpose Bucket" behind.)
My sailing hat hangs in the foreground. |
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Looking forward toward the open hatch. |
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The port side compartment beneath the forward dinette seat -- if I
used the drop-down dinette table as a table instead of my bunk anyway.
It contains cooking gear, coffee percolator and fixings, lamp oil, and
other things I want handy. |
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The starboard side compartment I use to store the
toolbox, containers of hardware and fastenings, electrical tools and
parts, and other maintenance things along with a spare fire
extinguisher. |
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The port side compartment beneath the aft dinette seat,
where I stow electrical chargers and adapters, first aid kit, flare kit,
safety harness tethers, and other things I may need to reach in a hurry.
By late afternoon, the boat's interior had aired and
dried out pretty well. Maybe too much mold and mildew won't get a
foothold after all. I removed the CCRadio's solar panel from the
window and stowed it, then took the bag of my good tools I bring along
on cruises, the Maine chartbooks, and all the towels home with me when I
left. I'm almost back to normal -- almost . . . (Aug. 17,
2008) |
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See Chip Ahoy's complete log of the cruise
Also, see the cruise charts
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