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Friday, July 3, 2009 Since I anticipated beginning work on this project in earnest next week, I wanted to take an opportunity to clean the interior once more. My earlier cleaning phase had been focused on getting the worse of the dirt and debris off the surfaces, but the flooded boat had clearly contained a substantial amount of oil or fuel, which had left all the surfaces slick with an oily film that plain water would not wash away. I needed to get the boat clean enough so that I could begin to take her apart, and get the worst of the flood residue washed away before moving the boat indoors. To that end, I scrubbed everything I could access in the interior with degreaser and water. Before beginning, I hammered a plug into the drain hole I'd created in the bilge earlier, so that the rinsedown and detergent would all end up remaining in the bilge, where I could leave it to soak for a couple days and self-clean that area. |
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| The degreaser made a marked difference and made the boat smell sweeter, and prepared the boat sufficiently so that I could think about beginning work and an overall assessment of the interior's condition, in order to better determine what, if anything, could or should be salvaged. That would all come soon. |
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With the interior cleaned out and the bilge full of water and soaking, I stripped all the standing and running rigging off the mast for eventual replacement, and prepared the mast to move over to my storage area. |
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