Its the Weekend Again

Well it is almost the weekend again and it is anybody’s guess what this one will have in store. We have a number of small odd jobs to do before we make any plans for leaving the berth.

First up for me is spring cleaning the galley. This is the last of the interior areas to receive the annual deep clean so it will be nice to get this finished and finish of the interior deep clean. The galley on Naughty-Cal is not huge but it will still take a while to take everything from the cupboards, clean them then put everything back again. A couple of hours ought to see the job completed then the whole interior has been deep cleaned and will be ready for the forth coming “boating” season.

Whilst I am cleaning the other half will of course be making a mess. This weekend is the turn of the dashboard grab handle. He keeps putting this one off; he really doesn’t want to drill the shiny blue gel coat on the dashboard. But needs must and it has to be done. He now has all of the items to do the job including a rubber gasket so this weekend is the weekend to jump in with both feet, well hands hopefully, and get it installed. We may even treat the dashboard to a polish and wax once the handle is installed, make it glisten and gleam.

Then it is the turn of the new cockpit lighting. This week we have purchased replacement LED bulbs for the main cockpit overhead light fitting and also for the transom light. These are the last of the main bulbs we needed to replace with LED equivalents so we are looking forward to fitting them and reaping the extra power saving we will achieve. No more worrying about leaving the lights on overnight. The navigation lights we have decided to leave for now, as we are likely to have the engine running whilst these are switched on. We will though, replace them when they decide to give up the ghost with LED replacement bulbs. Another expensive affair.

Last up will be a general tidy up and clean of the cabin and cockpit area. The cabin now that we have thoroughly cleaned it should be easy to keep clean with a weekly fettle and vacuum to keep it looking clean. The cockpit has yet to receive its annual deep clean and will not be done until after we have had the boat relaunched. The surface the boats are chocked ashore on is terrible for being trodden into and walked around the boat so the cockpit can wait for now. No point doing it now to have to redo it again in a month or so time. It will however benefit from its weekly wipe around and vacuum. It is almost time for removing the cockpit carpets and taking them home for the summer. This will make the task of cleaning the cockpit even easier as we can simply sweep it out or hose it and mop it out. Plus the boat always looks much lighter with them removed. They are a dark navy blue and although they help give the boat a warm feel during the winter months, they give the illusion of making the cockpit look smaller during the summer months. The clean white GRP looks much fresher come summer.

I am sure that there will still be time to enjoy Naughty-Cal as well over the weekend. The list of jobs shouldn’t take more than a few hours to finish so by Saturday lunchtime we should be ready and raring to go with the weekends partying and enjoyment. It must be about time we visited the Pyewipe by now. We have not been for a few weeks; they will think we have gotten lost!!