More Cleaning

I was able to spend a bit of time this weekend cleaning a little bit more. I was able to remove a bunch of stuff unrelated and unneeded for the restoration. There are long shelves above the V berths(bunks) that had collected a bunch of stuff that proves that entropy exists! Rusty rusty stuff and a bit of moldy cardboard. All gone now and appropriately recycled. The metal might return in your next Chinese product! A huge amount of scrap is shipped from Portland to China. MMMM does that make us sort of like a colony, providing raw materials to the mother country? I digress. I was also able to remove a bunch moldy life jackets, the horse shoe type. The great find though was a moldy but still intact canvas cover that I can use as a pattern when the time comes. We had a great run of warm dry weather so I took the tarp off and opened her up to air out a bit. She is beginning to smell less damp and a little sweeter...........gotta love a sweet smelling woman!
My plan for this coming weekend is to bring her down to the shop and remove the engine, marine gear and probably the shaft, shaft strut and cutless bearing, prop of course and the rudder. Removing all of the above before bringing her to the Neill Family EZ Bree Z ship repair facility will make access to all her innards and outards much easier thus not having to pay the Pirate like fees the EZ BreeZ yard charges.
When you get right down to it my biggest desire is to get her here in the EZ Bree Z yard and get to work scraping 35 years worth of mung out of her bilges. Only then will her hidden secrets begin to be revealed!