There’s always something to do on a boat, especially since we have 4 people on board trying to get their shit organized and usable.

Last week while at the dock in Stuart we went through the entire boat and purged a bunch of stuff we brought that we thought we would need but realistically won’t. A lot of it was tools… which pains me to get rid of but we had two palm sanders on a boat that doesn’t have any wood to sand.  We also had 3 sizes of torque wrenches which we will only use for motor work so we kept the middle size, etc. in total we removed about 4 dock carts full of crap from the boat. It cleared up a lot of space to better organize the stuff we decided to keep and made the boat a lot less cluttered looking! I didn’t really get any pictures of this, but it made a huge difference!

Another thing that was mildly inconvenient was the lack of counter space in the galley. A big chunk of it is taken up by the gas stovetop that we rarely use because we have a single burner induction cooktop that we just plug in. Jason’s dad made him a beautiful stove cover for our last boat that we were sad to have to leave when we sold it. But since we sold it to a friend and he didn’t really care about it, we stole it back! Eventually we will need to cut a few inches off the back but for now I went ahead and mounted it to the backsplash with a piano hinge and some 3m VHB tape. It looks fantastic on there! (also note the custom matching cutting board…also made by Jason’s dad)

Aside from a few little projects I’m hoping that we’re done working on the boat for a while and can just enjoy her!