Must....find....motivation....

Struggling for enthusiasm at the moment. My winter job list is right out the window, but we are slowly ticking things off.

Test fitting new liner and teak trim in the lower salon.

I have started in on the new liners for the lower salon. I need to make up a few teak trim pieces, then we will paint and varnish everything. The plan is to also paint and touch up the varnish in the aft end of the lower salon, then we will paint out the forward end and do some touch-up work in the galley. Sharon also wants to do new upholstery, but I'll leave that right up to her....

I have the lower drum unit for the furler all apart now, thanks to my nifty new extra-long double-jointed circlip pliers, which I will no doubt never have a need for again...   A couple of the replacement bearings had to be ordered in, but hopefully I will have everything in the next week and can put her all back together again.

Old bearings and seals. Utterly f****ed .

Marks on the inside of the housing lead me to believe this
is not the first time she has had the bearings done.

Cool, huh? No idea what I will ever use them for again.

I am heading to Europe and the USA for 3 weeks at the end of September, so I am starting to get that anxious "Shit I have to finish jobs!" feeling. Still have to do the port-side cabin, strip and varnish the mizzen mast (screw it, that's a summer job), make those lockers for the upper salon, and as a bonus we have decided to rip out the never-commissioned gasoline tanks under the aft cockpit seats to create a heap more storage. That's right James, just keep adding to the list...