Today was the first day I was able to get up to Everett to meet the new lady in my life. My first stop was the Marina office, where I took care of the moorage paperwork.

After that I headed down to the dock and started cleaning out her interior. 3 bags of sails and all of the cushions were loaded into my truck to be taken home to dry out there. I also brought the batteries home to be charged.

A trip to West Marine netted me a shore power adapter, battery charger and bilge pump. The charger and pump will be temporarily mounted on my next trip. I then hooked up the shop vac and vacuumed the bilge dry. The floors are fully encapsulated in glass, and feel solid. I'll have a better idea of their condition when I drill the holes for the bilge float switch.

Much of the hardwood trim seems salvageable, but the interior ply is shot. This will all have to be replaced with marine ply at a later date, but I may lay things out a bit differently to make more efficient use of the limited space below decks.

The leaky portlights were temporarily sealed with Gorilla tape, and the forward hatch was covered with a garbage bag teped to the deck. I cleared the cockpit drains by spraying some water into them, so hopefully I've slowed the water's ingress into the boat.

Noticed a few other things to add to the 'to do' list. The deck hardware needs to be re mounted and re bedded. I'll be using 316 stainless for the backing plates, tapped to accept machine bolts. There's also an unsealed hole through the transom that will need to be fitted with a waterproof fitting or simply glassed over, depending on whether I use the outboard mount or motor well. Right now I'm leaning towards the motor well since it would allow me to eliminate several holes through the transom.

Here's an exterior shot of Pellinore, rather fetching isn't she?