Safety first

I took another look at my wall of notes, so of course I had to make some more.

I've discovered a leak in the wiring which means the cabin lights don't work until the boat is thoroughly dried out. The cabin lights run off the batteries, which have 12 V direct current.

A 12 V DC shock is not going to kill you, but a 12 V DC short can still start a fire. This makes repairing (pretty much) the entire DC electrical system absolutely crucial. Meanwhile, I'm using candles for light and AC current for everything else.

Getting to the wiring means tearing out quite a bit of the bulkhead liner (the thin foam padding which covers the inside walls of the hull), which incidentally is 30 years old -- that means that it's seriously degraded, since foam inevitably degrades over time -- and absolutely saturated in mold and mold spores. I was going to get rid of it anyway, but in light of the electrical situation, doing that has moved to the top of the list.