The marine world keeps you on your toes. Boats require constant maintenance, and we always have a list of things we want to do, and then there are the ones that we discover that we have to do. Offshore passages especially beat up a boat.
That list at the end of this season included: Varnishing (more than a week of scraping, sanding, and varnishing in between bouts of rain), cleaning & reconfiguring the sink drain hose, propping up dying batteries (we’ll replace the house bank in the Spring), fabricating a new riser (stainless steel part of the engine), scraping the hull where it meets the water, re-filling propane bottles for cooking, and keeping mildew out of the inside of the boat. There’s probably a hundred other items, but those were the hardest and most time consuming. Six weeks of living in a marina wound up being a lot more than we planned, but we still found a few days to relax and enjoy the area. And we’re raring to go for 2023!
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