Autumn maintenance & boat rant

It is getting crowdy in our wooden boat department. Anders managed to squeeze this wide koster between me and Jim. Varnishing will be a challenge this year.

It is typical that once I take a day off to work on my boat it always is bad weather. Not cold - 9 degrees - but wet and rainy.

I fill diesel tank completely with fuel - to avoid condensation. Adding some poison to prevent algae growth, even though we buy fuel from Anders - pure diesel, no bio-additives (16 kr/l excl. moms).

I continue to turn the bilge into oily and sticky mess: linseed oil with turpentine. It should keep the wood moistured, expel water and keep rodents out of the boat.

This year I use this huge “enema syringe” to reach with oil into distant corners of the bow and akter. It failed as oil sucking device on my Yanmar-san so instead it spits oil. Works very well this way.

Last thing to do today was to take spray hood for cleaning. I put it outside in rain, to soak the fabric with soft water before I brush it with soap.

My girls are away so I don’t feel like stealing time today while working on the boat but somehow I do not enjoyed it. Something buggers me. I feel this current state of things is not right.

I took my typewriter with me. I find it easiest to spill my thoughts on paper and deal with them that way.

Here is the rant it became, typing in fury while sitting in Meriataten’s cabin.