Oh dear God, I bet that hurt!

Another day has been spent on Hawkeye getting her ready to sail. Shibby has been coming down with me helping me install the engine and while waiting for me to need her assistance she has been cleaning down all the salt encrusted walls and cupboards. Today she started in the fore-berth and worked her way back from there. All was going well until she opened up this can of worms,

It looks bad but believe me it's much worse. It looks like someone has deposited a vindaloo it there and left it for lent. Actually though, a lot of the grime is from the salt water combined with a few hot days and sitting stagnant . Was hell to clean off. It took her nearly an hour to make it sparkle. She'll remember her gloves next time.

One thing we have noticed it that every little cut that we get, seems to get infected from the salt laying around the boat we're doing our best to get it all cleaned but there is stuff everywhere. I have boxes of sail repair gear, electrical repair gear, tools, lifting equipment and parts that are need to put the engine in place. Were getting there though. Every muscle is sore from having to be a contortionist in such a tiny and cramped place. just putting the bolts in the flange for the drive coupling has me upside down with my legs over the navigation table. Crawling into the aft berths is like squeezing through a crowded shopping centre doors on a boxing day sale.

One more weekend and she will be able to come off the mooring and we can go for a sail and nut out the problems with the sail rigging,