Well, the 2021 cruising season, such as it was, is done.
Highlights included
- Winning our class at Block Island Race Week in June.
- Visiting our new grandson Parker in August
- Cruising Maine in late August/September
- And, as always visiting friends in and around Newport.
Next steps for us include – Jim helping John Callahan deliver his boat to Miami once this epic nor’easter moves away from us, and Deb driving south already on her way to visit with our son Chris in Kentucky and then her sister in Ft. Myers, Florida.
I’m always amazed at the amount of time and the work involved with decommissioning Morpheus. Of course this is because we haven’t done it very often given our preference for warm temperatures!
For those that might be interested, this is what our decommissioning task list looked like. We started a week and a half ago and finished yesterday.
✅ Charge and then disconnect batteries ★ – Due Yesterday
✅ Disconnect starting battery – Due Yesterday
✅ Turn off battery switch – Due Yesterday
✅ Diesel Service ★ – Due Today
✅ Leave pump and bucket near bilge sump ★ – Due Yesterday
✅ Remove zinc from fridge condenser
✅ Hang/Place dehumidifier bags – Due Yesterday
✅ Set out bug traps – Due Yesterday
✅ Remove speakers – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Open all filter housings – Due Yesterday
✅ Run washdown pump to empty water – Due Yesterday
✅ Plug heater vents with white tape on deck.
✅ Turn up all cushions ★ – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Pack bags into car – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Buy water tank antifreeze
✅ Final deck and hull wash down – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Tie helm – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove Watermaker filters and housings – Due Yesterday
✅ Remove WiFi box
✅ Clean heads top to bottom spotless – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Disconnect all propane – Due Yesterday
✅ DRAIN WATER HEATER – Due Yesterday
✅ Empty water system ★ – Due Yesterday
✅ Remove dodger canvas
✅ Clean engine room – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Empty vacumn cleaner – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Block for mast
✅ Tie backstay Cylinder – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Canvas covers on all hatches – Due Sat, Oct 23
✅ Empty, Drain, and wipe down fridge and freezer ★ – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Tef gel backstay pin – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Check all filters – Due Yesterday
✅ Clean spin pole end fittings – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove fancy water filter – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Close anchor line tube – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Grease Cleats
✅ Decomission Windlass
✅ Remove speedo
✅ Leave port water tank wide open to dry ★ – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Antifreeze down sinks – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Declutter as possible – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Polish dodger windows
✅ Oil change
✅ Break down mast and store
✅ Clean mast – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove lazy jack lines – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove Mast
✅ Clean White Yedi cooler – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Wash dodger windows after arrival
✅ Prep for mast removal – disconnect wires, hydraulics, connect pump. – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove Halyards
✅ Bring Red Cooler ★ – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove Halyards – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove roller furling drum and line
✅ Remove and Stow Sails – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove Boom – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove Vang – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove bimini – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove solar panels – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Get car to Pilots Point!
✅ Sort bow and stow dinghy
✅ Empty ditch kit of batteries
✅ Wipe down bow
✅ Wipe down all galley shelves and cutouts – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Pickle water maker
✅ Clean garbage cabinet inside
✅ Remove batteries in all electrical appliances – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove cockpit bags – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Wipe interior with water and vinegar – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove port screens – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Dump garbage – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Buy more anti freeze for water tanks – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ bring a lifejacket home – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Take passports ★ – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Rinse bilges – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Clean and vasoline ports and hatches – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Clean all ceiling panels – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Pack projector, camera, computer, speaker – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Dehydration bags and containers – Deb ★ – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove internet antenna – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Leave multimeter by batteries – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove BBQ – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Purchase Oil Rags – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Disconnect SSB antenna – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove mainsail battens – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove mainsail bag – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Boat shopping – vinegar
✅ Shopping: Anti freeze, garbage bags, roach hotels
✅ fuel jug on boat – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ scrub waterline – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ scrub decks – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ clean bottom of fenders – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ stow electrical cord – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ stow water hose – Due Sun, Oct 2
✅ Tighten engine belts – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Stainless desperately needs polishing – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Check gooseneck and vang nuts – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Switch all heads to fresh water – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Mark sling locations – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Install all hatch covers (canvas) – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove EPIRB – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Deflate Dinghy – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Check liferaft – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Rinse anchor chain and rode with fresh – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Clean hull multiple times – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove dinghy engine – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Stow dinghy engine – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Pack kitebag – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove speed transducer – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Removable sup fins – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Change engine fuel filters – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Fix door handle in pats cabin – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Clean Dodger (see note inside) – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Pickle Watermaker – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Clean dinghy – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Connect loose wire on alternator – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Remove jack lines – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Bring spare gas to jc but keep the “can” – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Repair inverter – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Clean salt from engine hose – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Clean hose with dinghy cleaner – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Wrap engine hose with chafe tape – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Install and test water maker pump – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Clean starter connections ★ – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Turn off tracker and iridium – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Mainsail luff car attachment – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Tag out reef lines – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Reassemble flush hoses for Watermaker ★ – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ West Marine for nonskid and deck wash – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Watermaker pump (spare) – Due Sun, Oct 24
✅ Check with pilots point – Due Sun, Oct 24
Morpheus Sailing 
May I ask the brand dehumidifier bags and bug traps you use?
Margaret S. Jorgensen
marg@msjorg.com
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Nothing special. Picked up whatever Home Depot was offering at the time. Lots and lots of those dehumidifier packages. They worked well last year. A real dehumidifier would work even better!!
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Jim That’s an amazing list! You could probably “sell” the list to other cruisers. Where are you going to spend most of the “off” season – can’t spend a lot of time in California! Dick
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:39 PM Morpheus Sailing wrote:
> Jim posted: ” Well, the 2021 cruising season, such as it was, is done. > Highlights included Winning our class at Block Island Race Week in > June.Visiting our new grandson Parker in AugustCruising Maine in late > August/SeptemberAnd, as always visiting friends ” >
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Thanks, Dick. Our crazy plans continue to evolve. We purchased a car last week, Deb is actually in it now heading to Florida. I’ll sail there with John Callahan and then once she picks me up we plan to visit some friends in Miami before heading to Kentucky to see Chris and Tennesee for Thanksgiving with my friend Pops and his family. Then we drive to California for a family wedding in San Diego, and then…. Stand by will let you know when we figure that next step out!!! I’m sure it involves lots of visits with our new grandson Parker and another major home improvement project for me!!
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