Oh, that's truly foul.

So this weekend, I dug in to some interior projects. Mostly the kind of stuff that you want to get out of the before you have dock-neighbours. No one likes to get to their boat only to find a nice layer of dust is all over it because you were grinding and sanding stuff all day. you also don't want to extract a toilet and holding tank system while your dock-mates are trying to enjoy a beer on a nice spring afternoon. No, these things should be done in a boatyard where *everyone* is grinding and sanding and otherwise molesting their boats' hull.

So things I have done this weekend:

Main cabin
- removed knot-meter and through-hull from starboard side.
- removed instrument-head unit from nav-station.
- removed sea-hood instrument display cluster.
- removed all instrument wiring, from the base of the mast back to the nav station.
- could NOT remove depth-sounder since it is located right over the boat cradle's forward cross-bar and there is not enough clearance to drop it.
- removed main cabin speakers and wiring.

Head
- removed toilet. It was glued down to the wooden pad so a good chunk of that came up with it.
- removed wet-locker panel behind toilet, port side of head.
- removed vanity and mirror above sink, starboard side of head.
- removed holding tank vent hoses, port and starboard. eeeew.
- removed hose from toilet to holding tank.
- removed holding tank pump-out hose.
- removed foam-backed vinyl liner in wet-locker and vanity. It was falling down anyway sicne all the foam had long since disintegrated into orange dust.

Vee-berth
- removed holding tank.

I found a slow leak in the diesel tank valve, located in the wet-locker. This is a slow leak that has lost me perhaps 1 or two litres over the winter (since October). However this fuel has to have gone somewhere and that is into the bilge. The wet-locker foam-dust and vinyl liner soaked up a lot of it but I will have some serious cleanup to do before launch. I soaked up as much as I could and put down a pad to catch what is still leaking until I can drain the tank and fix the valve. Diesel smells. Some people call it that "bilgey, boaty smell" but frankly, I can do without it.

There is still a tonne of work to do, but this weekend gave me a great sense of accomplishment. Much preferable to compounding a featureless hull...