After last year's disaster of a season (I had a terrible experience storing at a boatyard that's apparently run by pirates, followed by an oil leak in the engine that took two months to repair, followed by the pump out hose splitting at the end of the season and adding to the woes in the bilge) I took my sweet time fitting out this spring.
The past couple of years the emphasis was on spring cleaning and cosmetics, including repainting the no-skid. Not so this year. This spring it was a new Jabsco diaphragm pump for the bilge, new hoses for the freshwater and sanitary systems, removing and cleaning the freshwater tank, cleaning and painting the bilge, cleaning and painting the chain locker, treating some minor corrosion on the forward chain plate with POR-15, throwing out a vast amount of "stuff" that was no longer needed, re-caulking some ports and on and on and on.
S/V WOLF smells wonderful inside, the result of a clean bilge and a dry cabin.
I ordered a complete kit of engine spares, one of everything that I've needed over the years, from Merri-Mar Marine. I had the mooring pennant replaced with one much sturdier, with a pick-up buoy so I don't have to go fishing for the pennant with a boat pole.
And then I launched.
And it was wonderful.
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