Five days to launch!

J3ff

5 days to launch ? 13 inches of snow hitting at home tomorrow! Good luck!!

LaRea

This weather is all my fault for launching early.  Lucky for me she's in a covered slip.  

Dream_Inn

Yep, looks like a lot is melting after hitting the ground.  I think the 3-6 is about right.  & the Sunday storm is basically a little rain at this point.  The problem is, the temps are still in the low 40's for highs for the next 7 days.  Average at end of March is 60!!

summerx

I live out near frederick, MD.  we have about 9" on the ground and still coming down heavily.  looks like the bay area is getting less, but will probably still end up around 6"

LaRea

Four hours ago, we had 4".  It has been snowing ever since, and we still have 4" -- but it's now super-dense and heavy.  I won't be surprised to see some trees come down. 

On the plus side, the Admiral shoveled the driveway, and now everything that hits it is melting.  Same with the streets. 

Dream_Inn

Same thing here LaRea!  I think we might be about 6 inches though.  Except my kids did the driveway! Not sure about the street, since mine hasn't been touched (except tracks from me coming in about noon from work).

LaRea

Unbelievably, schools are closed again tomorrow.  Which means they won't open Friday, because next week is spring break and they have snow days to burn.  Great time to have an Admiral who is a teacher!

onislandtime

@LaRea
I usually use Purple Power and let it sit for a minute and then spray it out. It never gets it that clean. I guess its old fashion scrubbing or do you have a method that works?

onislandtime

I don't know how my comment on your bilge jumped to this comment lol. Same predicament. I'm launching 2nd week of April!

LaRea

For the bilge, I used West Marine bilge cleaner and a string mop.  The mop is great because I can reach down between the engines.  The only place it can't reach is under the engines.  I might get a second mop and cut off the handle for that.   

onislandtime

Gottcha. Remember my middle bilge has the 2 seacocks and hoses running aft. My engine bilge are angled where nothing can pool.

LaRea

While checking the forward bilge today, I found this disgusting little slice of nastiness in the compartment just forward of the bilge pump:



It appears to be the plywood cutout from when they installed the table base.  It's under the floor of the mid-berth, so I'll have to remove the table base to get it.  You can see the table base in the background.  

I only noticed it by accident.  Unfortunately, now that I've seen it, I will have to scrub that whole compartment with bleach.  It's like that Bob Seger song:  I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.  

randy56

Looks like something from a cheap horror movie. 

LaRea

I know.  I hope the rest of the compartment isn't like that.  

reneechris14

Looks like a slice of wheat bread with a little relish. That's got to go.

LaRea

I gave that forward bilge a good scrubbing.  It was nasty, although not quite as gross as it looked from the first picture.  

Bonus:  While cleaning the bilge, I discovered that the float switch for the bilge pump wasn't working because of a failed connector.  So I was able to fix that while I was in there.  

Willhound

Looks good! It almost looks like the end of the table post was sitting on the cutout, almost like a buffer to the hull?

randy56

Looks much better.

aero3113

@LaRea , what did you use to clean that area? Looks great!

GMSLITHO

just brought my boat home last week cut a hole in the shrink wrap and working inside hoping to be floating in a few weeks 

LaRea

Thanks!  All I used was West Marine bilge cleaner and a high-pressure hose.  The cutout for the table base was barely big enough for my arm, so I stuck a microfiber towel in and kinda flailed it around.  The hose did most of the work getting ten years of muck out of there.  Then I ran about 100 gallons of water through it to get all the soap suds out.  

It's okay if you think I'm weird for LIKING spending three hours on a Saturday morning cleaning my bilge.  I get it.  

The cutout was just floating around like a hockey puck in the neutral zone.  (LET'S GO CAPS!)

GMSLITHO

hope to be in before the cup playoffs start April 11 I think winter final ended here 

aero3113

How did you get rid of the water? Isn't that the through drain that's sealed up?

LaRea

The bilge areas in the cabin are all connected.  I used a wet-dry vac to get the last bit of water out.  It's 2-3 gallons that the bilge pump can't reach when the boat is sitting level. 

Dream_Inn

Caps sure had a great game last night!  I thought OV was gonna hit 50!

3 hours cleaning bilge, sounds like fun!   I bought some of that mildew cleaner that was talked about and I'm excited to clean out my rear hatch area!

aero3113

@Dream_Inn , you will be amazed at how well it works!

Handymans342

Dream_Inn said:

Caps sure had a great game last night!  I thought OV was gonna hit 50!

3 hours cleaning bilge, sounds like fun!   I bought some of that mildew cleaner that was talked about and I'm excited to clean out my rear hatch area!

One and done again

LaRea

Dream_Inn said:

Caps sure had a great game last night!  I thought OV was gonna hit 50!

Man, they tried to make it happen!  So close.  Would have been amazing.  Now it's time for business.  I think they have the raw materials to go all the way, but I could say that about a lot of teams right now.  We're gonna go to Wednesday's game.  

Handymans342

Holtby lives near you LaRea

LaRea

And the practice facility is a block from my office, but I haven't managed to run into him yet.