Last week' work

After a week vacation in Florida on Grandpa’s Pearson 323 My Girls (it is worth noting that Grandpa’s got two sons but only one daughter…) and another one relaxing at Grandma’s, work has got to start on the boat.  We are lucky enough to have 4 months off work, therefore we rented a cabin very close to the boat, on the bank of the Richelieu river.  Match plan:  July, August, September and October full time except for various little trips and family obligations.

We are, to say the least, a bit scared:  The work load is huge and we've never really worked with steel.  A hole that would take 5 minutes to patch with fiberglass in kivioq’s hull is keeping us up at night.  Half the people on the forums say steel is the best material ever for a cruising sailboat, the other half say it’S the worst ever, it won’t stop rusting and you’ll never get ahead of it.

So, in order to calm down a bit and gain perspective on the situation, we took advantage of the fact that our boat ladder went MIA, we built a set of wood stairs with built-in lockable storage box.  Then Grandpa and Lucie weren’t even back from Florida yet that we put them to work.

3 people, 4 days, 21 Rubbermaid bins and 2 gallons of paint later, the stairs are painted and the boat’s empty.  Now we have to find some form of storage because the cabin is a mess.  All the bins are stacked up inside, as well as fenders, spreaders, anchors and anything that wouldn't fit in a bin.