The day started out scummy and rainy, so not the best day to get a pic of the new Mainsail Cover and the New Bartlett Jib. The covers are purple, but with the clouds, you really can't see it

After hanging out and enjoying a bit of the Opening Day ceremonies at AYC, including the mimosas, it was time to get down to work. I was really dissapointed to get to the boat and find several leaks, especially in the forward hatch and the port in the forepeak. Something else to track down and fix. For some reason, we fixated on the stove/oven today. It was a huge mess, and being as anal as we are when it comes to boatwork, we decided to pull the stove out, rip out the panels in the space the stove occupies, and clean it all up, even though most people would never even see that space. This is the space after being cleaned out, notice the lack of a stove.

The stove, as clean as I was able to get it, ready to be installed.

During lunch, we drove down the dry sail area and saw a sight nobody every likes to see, John Fitch's Catalina 22 had filled with water and fell back on it's trailer.

This is what the cockpit looks like after being filled with water and leaves. The tree behind the boat in the picture above was the cuplrit. Personally, that tree needs to go away, but sometimes it seem we are more the Austin Tree and Arbor Society and not the Yacht Club. Our motto should be "What the boat wants, the boat gets" (I stole that from Tim Lackey). There was just as much water inside the boat.

David and I, being the Boy Scouts that we are, grabbed a bucket and a pump and got most of it out before Jon showed up.

So, why the photo below? You are asking yourself, "Why am I looking at a toilet?". The answer is, I spent 2 hours scrubbing and cleaning the head, dammit, so here it is!

That is it for this week, more later..