Amadeus Closing

So very cool. So the terror is mostly declining, steely determination is trending, I'm all for that. Took Betty to the boat the other day, she was not completely displeased. We are compromising a bit on the berthing areas. It has a center cockpit, yay, but has a walk over interior. So the "Owners Stateroom" is completely separate from the salon part and has no attached head. Well I can live with that. It has a number of other berths including two sea berths, nice and snug, as they need to be. The head is all rather odd as it is split port and starboard. The "shower" and sink is to port and across a small passageway is the head to starboard. Old manual head at that. Might be looking at replacing that in the future with a composting air head. Has an interesting puzzle of interlocking doors to allow a touch of privacy for those personal moments. Two doors manage to cover three openings. The sole is junk. The Gin Fizz originally came from the factory with a glassed over plywood sole, which they then carpeted. This one just has some creaky plywood down painted and mostly not attached to the boat really. The vaunted hanging lockers are miniscule, but seeing as we don't have to sell the house to afford the boat we are not planning on living on it while the refit is happening. Still haven't determined if the engine is a rotating thing or rusted into scrap metal. We bid the boat expecting the engine to be junk, so if it isn't, gravy! Moves the plans up several years and lowers the refit cost significantly. Or at least leaves the outlay further in the future. The engine says it only has 1563 hours on it, which is insanely low hours for a boat this old. Still need to find the stupid battery bank, it's a small boat so there are only a few places left to look, but I need tools.

Anyway I am off to handle the closing tomorrow. Many more pictures and ruminations to follow. Got to make a run to Home Depot for a chain and lock for my ladder, and wasp killer as I have a hive living under the lid to the starboard lazarette in the cockpit. Forgot about them and whipped open the lid the last time I was there and promptly got stung, but only once thankfully. Any of you that know me know I have a weird sensitivity to bug bites.

LA!