It still amazes me. I should say, I find it fascinating, but mostly sad. What? The level of breakage that occurs from a boat doing nothing. Seriously, most things were in decent shape when I bought the boat; except for those things that were not and that is why we put it in the yard. I spend months, directed by the survey, finding all the issues and getting quotes to fix them.
Then the boat went in the yard. Those items got fixed. But along the way other things died or broke or just caused more trouble.
The alternator, which worked great on the ride over, seized up while the engine did nothing in the yard for 10 months. Equipment died. Hoses started leaking. Ports no longer sealed. Stanchion bases suddenly failed to keep rain out (well technically whatever the crap was that the owners prior used to seal them). The hard dodger windows seals failed and the water leaked right into screw holes that were not “epoxified” to keep water out of the core. Just painful.
There is more which is totally inexplicable. The oven gas valve won’t turn. Its just stuck. All the burners still work. But for some reason, the boat gods decided that the oven shall not heat, fire, gurgle unlit gas. Nothing. The forward head intake hose developed a pin hole, or slightly larger. The aft head tank discharge developed a leak, at the tank. The pleasant odor of which made a huge impact when I opened the boat after being gone for 2 weeks. Thankfully, Florida had been uncharacteristically cold.
Its plain bizarre. The boat does nothing and it falls apart. You work the boat hard and it slowly does the same. But why does doing nothing encourage it to higher levels of entropy, sooner? Is there some 2nd law of boat thermodynamics that I missed?
Oh well. New Force 10 stove, since Whale decided to stop making parts for Hillenrange years ago. New plywood for the dodger core rough cut and ready. Quarts of epoxy ready to go. Order for new hoses on the list. Bed-it tape ready to go to seal the deck holes.