Checklist
Mar 8, 2026 - 8 minute read
Completed work/days
Sunday 3/8
Dwight
- Refigerator spec out
- Move staysail to loft
- Order Sailor’s Palms & Needles
Lasarette
- Secure House Batteries with straps
- Secure the cover for the main + breaker
- Secure the solar + wind cables
Deck
- Yank screws out of transom
Monday 3/9
- Call DYC about moving to Tuesday & roller furler for staysail
- Clear the spare lines off deck
- free up the bumpers and working lines
- Pack all the “spring cleaning” into bins & wedge them in quarterbirth
- Tape up speaker box so it doesn’t go flying
- Cut up insulation for locker and for electropooper
- Put 20-30 gal of diesel in the tank
- Wash dishes
- Stow things
- Pull cameras and cat6 into cabin
- Temporarily secure starlink cable
Tuesday 3/10
- Laundry
- Clean, stow, get ready to go
- Go to Dville!
Wednesday 3/11
- Plan furling and bobstay + whisker stays w/Mike @ DYC
- West Marine/Hurds:
- try and replace anchor locker hinges
- Better way to secure anchor to roller
- Get 100ft tape measure from Hurds
- try and replace anchor locker hinges
- Measure and order mack pack
- Measure and order new lines
- Order Reefurl or Harken
- Put in water tank union
- Fill water tanks
- Cut out old water tank
- Cut out the old bad pump and use the line for the Cockpit instrument fuse block
- Run cockpit instrument fuse block
Thursday 3/12
- Install water tank union
- Pull old water tank pump
- Convert water tank pump wires to B&G power
- Measure and order Mack Pack
- Install network switch and zip down Pis
- Move batteries to the salon
- Install new multiplus
- Install Victron Cerbos
- Connect N2K to OpenPlotter
Sunday 3/15
- Do “big spring sort”; 3 piles: Boat, Truck, Gone
- Empty out every last drawer, cubby, whole boat
- Truck stuff goes in the bed of the truck
- Tarp truck bed
- Gone stuff goes in the storage unit
- Boat stuff goes back inside the boat
Monday 3/16
- Put away provisions, organize galley as best as possible
- Did Reefurl respond? If not, find a seller for Harken
Tuesday
- Shower, eat, coffee
- Wire in new battery bank
X* run generation 1/0 down to battery locker through pantry to bus bar
X* bring 10/3 down from panel to new multiplus
X* join 10/3 from old multiplus + shore power lines
X* run new 10/3 from new multiplus to 110v panel
X* run new 1/0 from bus bar to 12v panel
X* run 4/0 from new multiplus to bus bar
X* run 4/0 from batteries to clusters X* run 4/0 from clusters to bus block X* run 4/0 from bus block to bus bar- move earth ground bus to in front of companionway
- run long-ass 4/0 to ground bus (or 1/0 if that’s what we got, then order longer)
- Find a reefurl alternative (they don’t respond)
Wednesday 3/18
- Finish clearing out storage unit
- Move truck items to truck
- Remove old Multiplus
- Run starlink and AIS cables (3rd CAT6 if possible) through chaseway
Thursday 3/19
- Properly zip up wires in lasarette
- Install sensor on propane tank
- Install and program AIS
- Properly secure all wires in the transom
- Move tools and materials to lasarette
- Properly run starlink & AIS cables to gland in transom
Friday 3/20 (WARM!)
- Shower
- Eat + Coffee
- Install cover on truck
- Clear everything out of Truck cabin
- Do dishes and put away all the containers and things
- Organize galley
- Clean up Domestic storage
Saturday 3/21
- Open up Mainana and connect directly to macarthur hat with short cable
- Mount nameplates
- Go to sock burning and talk to evolution about wrapping up sails
- Put away chemicals and fiberglass box (back in a crate where it works)
Sunday 3/22
- Insulation for electropooper
Monday 3/23
- Pin out AIS cable
- Trim the port speaker box and close it
Tuesday 3/24
- Text Dwight, find videos on on how to sew things, or go see Evolution
Wednesday 3/25
- Sew jib webbing and sacrificial cover
Thursday 3/26
- Pull stove, cut out and install icebox kit
- Cut out opening for ice box compressor
- Clean out cockpit
- Install webbing in locker
Friday 3/27
warm but raining
- Stow lines somewhere until rain ends
- Trace out starboard for battery
Saturday 3/28
cold :(
Battery
- Power down boat and install starboard and battery bank
- Cut starboard
- Install box
- Install blocks and cables
- Install main earth ground
- Run network cables through back
- Button up nav desk
Sunday 3/29
cold :(
- Finish battery install
Monday 3/30
warmish but cloudy and windy
- Finish battery re-install
Tuesday 3/31
warm and sunny!
Install davit solar panels
- tube mounts
- cross blocks
Earth ground
Wednesday 04/01
In Town
- 1/0 3/8 lugs x2
- 6awg 3/8 lugs 1
- 32 bolt/nylock nut/double washer combos for starboard mounts
- Finish battery bulkhead
Thursday 04/02
- 6awg 3/8 lugs 1
Friday 04/03
- Seal the AIS tube with silocone
- Replace starlink rubber bushing
- Sort lines, see if we have enough to fly the jib and staysail and lay them out
Saturday 04/04
- Move boatflix to nav desk
- Earth ground for motor/house power
- Fix falling-apart companionway box
Engine
- ziptie earth grounds
- Oil change & filter change & fill up trans
- Change impeller
- Top off ATF/transmission
- New coolant
- Air filter
- Replace zip tie on transmission
- Clean out groco filter
Sunday 04/05
- borrow screws in multiplus cover for west trip
- Go to west and get:
- ❌ new jib sheets need to order, none in stock?
- ✅ whipping twine
- ✅ new fenders
- ❌ multiplus replacement screws need to order none in stock
- ✅ Secure anchor to roller: need a few links of anchor chain
Monday
- Hang new main
Tuesday
- Drill clam and run/terminate davit solar wires
- Temporary mount davit solar panels w/rope lashings
Wednesday
- Clean and re-mount downahul
- replace harken clamp if I have one
- See if king starboard reminants are large enough for nav desk divider
Thursday
Solar
- 📦 Extend solar wires and zip them all in place
Before Saturday 4/11
Mainsail
- Pull off new main
- Install mack pack topping bracket
- Install lower brackets for mack pack
- Go up mast and mount cheek blocks
- Re-hang main
Provision
- Fill water tanks
- Groceries
- Drinking water
- Top off fuel tank (10 gal)
Staysail
- Hank on Staysail and bag it up
- Rig staysail
Dinghy
- Inflate and pull up
- strap in so it doesn’t swing
Saturday 4/11
- Lash solar properly (4 points)
- Ziptie solar wires + secure wires in lazarette
- Hoist and secure Dinghy so it doesn’t swing
- Install old air intake on motor
- Terminate Earth grounds
- Bring motor to temp and check pigmat for leaks
- Move “stuff with no home” to quarerbirth
- Pirate wheel
- Cockpit Table
- Put away all the tools and things in the cockpit
- Clean eisenglass
- Wash out cockpit
- Put cushions in cockpit
- Clear the deck
- Wash down deck (metal shavings are still everywhere ☠️)
- Double-check anchor
- Rig main reefs
- Rig staysail
W/Truck
- Fill water tanks
- Top off fuel tank (10 gal)
- Move drinking water from truck to quarterbirth
- Stow spare lines + webbing for who knows what
- Lock truck and give Tony keys
Inside
- Return Tony’s tap
- Wash dishes
- Clear off nav desk
- Pull out gear (gloves, hat, jacket etc)
- Stow engine parts in settee
- Stow Kennedy print in back of quarterbirth (so it doesn’t shatter)
- Ratchet strap refrigerator
- Stow work clothes in compression bags (foot of bed)
- Stow and put away clothes in V-Birth
Stretch Goals
- Go up mast and mount cheek blocks
- Brussels sprouts and/or Asperigus would be nice
Sunday 4/12 Before 8am
- Pull gear out and put in red Defiant bag
- Stow nav desk stuff
- Remove B&G covers
- Pull spare anchor roller
- Stow spare oil
- Breakers - turn off freshwater, turn on autopilot
- VNC tablet
- Strap refrigerator
Before St. Michaels
- unclog cockpit scupper
- Replace grab rail lines on dinghy
- Running lights both bow and stern need to be wired and replaced
- Mount Kennedy quote
- Turn white cutting board into hook hangar board for galley
- Wire in B&G screens/Radar
- Repair and re-install cockpit table
- Replace davit cord with steel cable
- Coast Guard Vessel Check
- Sew staysail webbing
- Go through sheet bag and find ropes to keep - specifically docklines
- Improve how solar panels on bimini are attached - better line
- MPPT => Cerbos via quad
- More pillows + better cushions for deck. Current cushions suck
- Raymarine autopilot remote
- Put airator in shower head
- Anchor drop button at bow
- Finish Nav Desk:
- fans
- set up Pis with ssds
- anchor alarm
- build starboard divider
- 5v rail
- zip down wires and pis
- Mount all Pis (NAS, manager vs Jfin)
Drinking Water
- 3-phase filter on drinking tap
- UV filter on main
- Clean up galley sink:
- Replace sink
- Add p-trap
- Remove dead seawater pump
- Dual faucets: washing w/mixer, drinking
- put airator in washing faucet
Jib
- Finish jib stitching
- Hang the jib
- Rig jib sheets
Nav
- Cut Starboard to fit nav desk panel w / passthrough grommets
- Swap in USB SSD on openplotter & re-build
Engine
- Replace air intake (go to chesapeke cove)
- Proper oil change (drain current oil completely first!)
- Change water pump oil
- Change impeller
- New coolant
- Replace Air filter/Snorkel
- Replace zip tie on transmission
- Clean out groco filter
Icebox:
- Install compressor et al
- Wiring
- Thermostat
Before Underway
- Service pedistal cables
- Machine shop:
- Machine key adapter for wheel + install wheel
- Machine stove burner heads
- Machine stove pivots
- Dinghy cover/chaps
- build and connect fuel tank sensor module
- Clutches and rollers to run back: main + reef lines
- Clean up mains wire in lasarette (new heat shrink tubing!)
- Find a furler for staysail
- Sew cover on staysail
- Install shore power disconnect
- Sacrificial cover for staysail
- Galley add the shelf to make compressor compartment usable
- Wire in B&G fuse block
- Cancel storage unit
- Move truck
- Sell old solar panels + battery
- Pull old water tank & store with spares
running rigging:
- solid red/green for jib
- checked red/green for staysail
- Replate staysail rigging
- some solid color for main (needs replacing)
While Underway
- Repair screws on dighy motor
- bug screen for ports and door
- Empty out and clean the 2 drawers above the forward locker
- Clear out and clean space above forward locker
- Mop up wood with murphys soap