WOO!!!! Free run of the apartment. I can dry out sails anywhere!
After getting back from the airport, I start in on the cushions. A good serrated knife and a box of garbage bags. Bend, cut, stuff, toss, bend, cut, stuff, toss.... A wind storm is passing through the area with gusts into the 60s, and one of those manages to kill the power. Now, keep in mind that it is winter, and it is very early in the morning. The power goes out, and I'm standing in a pitch black room with a knife in mind hand and surrounded by a pile of cut up cushions I can't see. I somehow managed to find a flashlight and I continue to cut up the rest of the cushions.
Once it begins to get light out, I load up the bags of cushion chunks, drop them in the dumpster, and head to the boat.
I load the rest of the sails into the truck, remove all the hardware I can without opening any holes in the deck, take off all the running rigging and everything else that isn't tied down to the boat, and generally try to strip her down. There is a lot of crap on this boat.
Later, at home, I draw a nice cold bath to throw all the lines into, and go out to buy some institutional quantities of bleach. Bleach the lines and that main with the leather bits.
First sail: Code Zero from Mariner Sails. Seems to have some surface mold, but otherwise looks like it is in pretty good condition. Toss it in a bleach bath, rinse it off, dry it, and pack it.
Next sail: spinnaker. This is the newest chute on the boat, probably 6 years old or so. A little beat up, a little blown out, but still usable. Dry it out, pack it.
That brings me to where I am now:
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| Boom, spin pole, and D4 jib in storage behind the couch. |
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| Main (with the leather bits) and lines drying in the living room. |
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| Sorted dry sails, dry lines, and boxes of stuff. |
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| Storm jib and 130 drying in the guest bath. |
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| Sails, tillers and battens that still need sorting. |
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