With electrics acting like they're stoned on weed cut with cyanide, the hull liner fiasco still stinging (they were supposed to tear right out, but remember what a huge process that turned into?), the hull's protective paint nearly gone, the standing rigging leaking belowdecks, and the engine the outboard motor shop said was mine now suddenly promised to someone else, I sat down yesterday (my head spinning like a random orbit sander) and went back to essentials.
The boat can be sailable first, or liveable first.
Either way, because it can't pass inspection until it's close to being both, it's going nowhere for awhile (unless I can find some rules to bend.)
So here's my thinking:
- I can sail with BAADS and with friends, to scratch the moving-water itch.
- T aking care of the engine, whatever I do, will take time. Lots of time, apparently.
- Making the boat liveable will make the job of making her sailable easier. (Good onboard electricity means fewer extension cords, for one thing.)
So what's next: hull liner, hull paint, leaks, or electricity?
- Being without good electric is alarming and a pain in the ass.
- Having good electric makes everything else easier.
- However, leaks contribute to the electrical problems.
- Also, the hull liner is in the way of the existing electrical system.
- I can wire a new electrical system on top of that, and take out the old one later. I hate that sloppiness, but hell, here we are.
This weekend, while I'm away, I'll hunt up fabric and work on wiring schemes.
Okay, sounds like a decision. Unless y'all have any other ideas.
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