Serge's Boat Work Day - War to mildew

Once or twice a year, usually after the rainy season and after the racing season, Elise needs a few things

1. Mildew removal as things can get quite damp inside the boat
2. To be aired out so air can flow through the boat and dry everything out, particularly anything cloth below (Elise has lee-cloths on its quarterberths as a kind of permanently fitting bunk)
3. To have its teak settee cleaned and oiled
4. To have its bilge cleaned
5. To have its inside desalted (this usually requires taking everything out, using a sponge for most of the boat with fresh water and a hose for the bilge area, or near the engine compartment, and up to the very back
6. To have everything that stays inside rinsed, cleaned, dried up and then put back into place

And this year, Serge is doing the mildew, the teak treatment and the airing out! It's amazing!

Photos courtesy of Serge of Ultimate Yachtshots

This is where we keep the big battery. Elise has two batteries. A small one which we use all the time - and a big one which we need as a supplement when we go offshore and need to run instruments all day and night, compass lights at night, communication devices, navigation lights all night, the autopilot, the cabin lights, nav computer (well...next time we should have a computer and a modem so we can receive weather faxes!) and just be able to recharge during the day through solar power.

some pre-photo, eg. with the mildew

some pre-photo

small battery compartment

Let there be light

The toilet (the other one, though much more comfortable was way too heavy to stay on the boat. We do have a comfy foam seat for this with a toilet-like lid for cruising though, so it looks like a real toilet from above!)

The weapons

This is a pre-photo, this is the set of connections that go up the mast: signal and power for the windvane, power for the LED and the steaming lights

This is a post photo

This is a very cool photo of the inside of the V-berth. We usually do not put very much in there, particularly since the two throughhulls run along the v-berth and because we do not like to put a lot of weight at the bow, unless everything else on the boat is super full and heavy (Pac Cup, bus-style) - We run a line, so we can tie the wooden plans to the boat and they don't go flying if the boat turtles.

This is a post photo

This is a post photo