Just like a house or a car or a trailer or, really anything, you have to take care of it if you want to keep it as a nice place to live or use. In a boat, the challenge is space. There is never enough room to put things while you work on the area the stuff usually sits. Plus, some task just are nasty and dirty. The worst are when you have something wrong and the culprit is not easily apparent. All part of cruising. You deal with the grunge to enjoy the fun.
This is obviously a very large storage locker. Everything
had to come out to reach a fitting. He also had to disassemble
a cover over an area to reach the fitting. It was big job. I stood
by to hand in tools so he wouldn't have to keep climbing out.
This is just some of the stuff that came out of that locker.
Look closely and you'll see the ultimate culprit. The one screw
is missing the nut and this tiny piece of metal was clogging
the propane locker vent. That could have been a potentially
fatal flaw if a tank had a leak and it didn't vent to outside
the boat. Propane sinks into bilges creating explosive dangers.
appI have my own grunt chores too like defrosting
our fridge and freezer. I am extremely grateful to have
these two appliances but I have to stand on a stool to reach
down into one and it's just a yucky job.
Some of the stuff out of them. When you have
to pile stuff in one area, it makes the non-worker crew confined
to the non piled up part of the boat.
When you see a boat majestically sailing through the water, you never think about the space challenges or grunge work behind the scenes! Thankful y'all caught that situation in time.
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