Scrub scrub scrub, inside & out ... getting the boat ready to leave for six months. This boat hasn't been this clean all season!
A commuter cruiser friend, Sharon, on sv Rose of Sharon, in Bocas Del Toro, Panama, yesterday pointed out that she was scrubbing her oven & stove to be clean ... to leave for six months after making it filthy while cruising for the prior six months. LOL!
I had to laugh as I think about all the cleaning & prep we're doing to leave Winterlude for hurricane season. Mopping and double-mopping to make sure there's no hint of a crumb left anywhere, scrubbing that stove & oven, emptying all food lockers, scrubbing and then wiping out with bleach water ... the list never ends.
All this to make absolutely sure there's no way any bugs, ants, roaches, mice, rats or who knows what other critters might decide to invade below while no one's living aboard. :)
So we clean clean clean for the BUGS, but while we're living aboard, it's a rare day when I clean .... too much to do, too much fun to have. And I guess, most bugs & critters don't want to live with us aboard - or at least we've never had a problem when we're living on the boat.
I am FAR from a clean freak, but when it comes time to leave the boat, I go nuts. Go figure. :)
In the meantime, cleaning photos are no fun, better to remember the "aaahhhh" moments when the diesel rumble shut off & we listened to the water lapping at the hull and the wind in the sails!
I had to laugh as I think about all the cleaning & prep we're doing to leave Winterlude for hurricane season. Mopping and double-mopping to make sure there's no hint of a crumb left anywhere, scrubbing that stove & oven, emptying all food lockers, scrubbing and then wiping out with bleach water ... the list never ends.
All this to make absolutely sure there's no way any bugs, ants, roaches, mice, rats or who knows what other critters might decide to invade below while no one's living aboard. :)
So we clean clean clean for the BUGS, but while we're living aboard, it's a rare day when I clean .... too much to do, too much fun to have. And I guess, most bugs & critters don't want to live with us aboard - or at least we've never had a problem when we're living on the boat.
I am FAR from a clean freak, but when it comes time to leave the boat, I go nuts. Go figure. :)
In the meantime, cleaning photos are no fun, better to remember the "aaahhhh" moments when the diesel rumble shut off & we listened to the water lapping at the hull and the wind in the sails!
One more cruising winter, only a memory. This makes 10.
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