If You Give a Boat Some Bling . . .

(apologies to, and inspiration from, Laura Numeroff and “If You Give a Moose a Muffin”)

If you give a boat some bling, she’ll want the matching exterior stuff.

Boat bling, interior version

So you start the latest Defender list. Which makes you eyeball your “rapidly-disappearing-under-boat-bucks” budget. (Calypso, do you REALLY need new boat bling for the exterior, or can we just clean up the existing bling to make it shiny?)

Which makes you change your focus for the weekend, from fiberglassing to thru-hull removal.

That will come out easily, right?

Which makes the boat defiantly hold on.

Which makes you take out the head. And the head pedestal. And the mahogany ceiling strips under the head pedestal. Small spaces don’t make it easy. (Bonus? Unearthing incredible amounts of dog hair circa 1995. And a Lego piece.)

See the head and the pedestal?

Which enables you to access the largest piece of boat not-blingy-enough - the head discharge.

Which the boat clearly doesn’t want to let go of.

Sawzall for the win!

Which makes you add this boat bling to that Defender list.

Which makes you wonder what else needs to go on the list.

Which the boat appreciates, for sure.

Because when you give a boat some bling, she’ll want more bling to go with it.

The weekend included some epoxy work and a whole lot of extra, unplanned, demolition. We’d planned to replace all the thru hulls before we go back in the water, just maybe NOT RIGHT NOW. We’d planned to redo the head area, just maybe NOT RIGHT NOW - and I was starting to think that might be something that happened way down the line. Nope. Add to that Defender list!