The old dinghy got some TLC - 2012

The dinghy got some TLC on Sunday as we were just too curious to stay away from it. vx

We removed the oars and reg plates

February 2012 - Currently at Marina Kona Kai  Shelter Island San Diego, CA  

We removed and washed the seat.

The seat came out nice.  

We removed the blow up floor.

I pumped the water out of the dinghy with a wet vac.

The mark on the floor is for a pad that the gas tank would sit on.

Debbie washed the blow up floor.

We wrestled the dinghy onto the dock, at least part way at this point

and then decided it needed more water removed.

None of this stuff was easy.

The plug was not in the dinghy.

We scraped with a plastic scrapper.

Got the plug in.

Moving-scraping.

Debbie found a crab.

One part clean.

Flip it - scrape it.

On and on.

Wash it off and scrape it some more. We also used a power washer

once we got all the major growth off.

The dock started smelling.

These we could not get off as we were ruining low on energy.

Time to check out the neighbors dock box for more dingy goodies.

The pad for the gas tank is spotted.

The dingy anchor with chain and rode.

The dingy pump is found.

Anchor now in our dock box 😁

 After we got the dinghy blown up we put the oars on and we took it for a row. We rowed over to the next dock and saw Don and his wife with a couple of friends. They had gone whale watching. 
 Debbie rowed back and was very good at it. She even rowed the dingy stern to into the slip between our boat and out neighbors. Never got us wet!

Now that we rowed it we want to take it for a putt with our 4 hp Merc outboard!

Pulling the mast is in the way of this. Soon though.