CS34 Ready for Sailing

Rita and I spent all day Sat/Sun working on getting Still Time ready for the sailing season.  We were hoping to make it to the WYC club cruise to CBYC, but we were NOT ready.

Sat morning I got the oil changed and water heater hooked up and working.

851.5 hours on Engine Hour meter

Spent some time running all the lines from the mast back to the cabintop.

• main halyard
• main sheet
• main topping lift
• outhaul
• boom vang
• jib halyard
• spinnaker halyard
• pole topping lift
• reef 1 line
• reef 2 line

Had to go up the mast in a bosun's chair:

Hooking up lazy jacks

Also worked on:

new mast turning blocks (purchased at Toronto boat show)
stack pack sail cover
lazy jacks
flag halyard
boom vang
new spin halyard
furling line
foresail
mainsail with battens

Also tuned the rigging; I had tightened the intermediates first (bad idea), giving the mast a pronounced bend:

Was easily corrected by backing them off and starting with the upper shrouds first.

Sunday spent all day cleaning the boat inside and out.  Last year we decided to leave all the cushions on board.  BAD IDEA.  They got dirty with flies and spiders.  Plus we had to be constantly moving them about as we cleaned.  Neat year, we take them home, only to bring them to the boat after she has been cleaned.

What a mess: I had left a quart bottle of Tom Green beer in the locker under the port settee.  It had frozen and leaked all over the place!

The two house batteries each took over a liter of distilled water; bad! 
The tops of the plates were exposed.

We were hoping to get out for a sail on Sunday, but too much to do.  We picked up Rita's mom in the late afternoon for a club BBQ that was very well attended.

It was nice sleeping on the boat on Sat and Sun nights.

Still a couple of things to do:

• clean out he cockpit lockers
• fix the showerhead
• fix the dining table (some screws missing)
• attached the bimini frame and canvas