Check out the fleece...My mom is visiting which is very handy. What do moms do when they visit their children? They do a lot of work with their children, even when they claim that they are visiting just to rest. Just an observation on my part of course.
Anyhow, mom and I did some work on Elise this week (as well as on the Sarcoma Cup preparation).
1) We removed all the mildew from Elise and treated her with a "mildew blocker"
2) We cleaned up all the items contained in various containers on Elise (well, mom did)
3) We rinsed the boat's V-berth and the two buckets
4) We applied anti-rust all over the boat metal parts
4) We cleaned up everything that can be cleaned without vacuuming (taking everything out, cleaning up, waiting for it to dry and putting everything back in)
5) We removed unnecessary items: a harness, a tether, some spare lines, etc...to make sure the boat is as light as possible for Bay racing
6) We treated the inside wood on the settees and the bulkhead with teak oil (and cleaned them up)
7) We put some order into the sink, navigation table and everything else that needed some help in that department
8) We took away with us most of the users manuals that were getting moldy on the boat
9) We aired out the boat as she needed this quite a bit after the various local deluges :)
Elise looks quite beautiful now...wait, not just now of course. And it feels so satisfying when you do something like this - as if your own thoughts and life become orderly and clean all of the sudden. Hugely therapeutic.
A nice hot drink at THE Peet's Coffee at Berkeley was a well-deserved reward.
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