Yet More Spring Cleaning

With spring well and truely in the air, the trees starting to leaf and the dadffodils in full bloom its about time we finished the spring cleaning. This weekend it was the turn of the saloon.

On a 25ft boat no room is ever going to be huge, but we were amazed at the amount of things we packed off back to the car as we never use them, and also at the amount of things we threw away as having no use. Two big black bags full, shameful really. Still with the saloon decluttered, cleaned top to bottom and items put away in more suitable locations, the place is looking much slicker and cleaner and smells really quite fresh now.

Next week will see the last of the interior rooms, the galley, thoroughly cleaned and prepped for the coming season. We are even purchasing a fresh new set of pans for the event. The current set of sauce pans were a cheap set from Morrisions and have proven very difficult to keep clean from day one. After two and a half years of moaning about them they are finally going to the scrap heap next weekend, to be replaced by a shiny new set of Tefal non stick sauce pans and a small frying pan. We have not had a frying pan aboard Naughty-Cal as yet prefering the square griddle pan, but with the galley decluttered there should be ample room for a small one. Hmmm, fried eggs with breakfast.

So another successful weekend with the boat looking better, less cluttered and some excess weight shed. A few small maintenance jobs completed and less to do during the summer. Next week we have a few more odd jobs to complete, the interior deep clean should be finished and then attentions can be turned to the cockpit area. It will all be worth the effort in the long run.