Saturday morning dawned bright and sunny again - perfect weather for this job! So with confidence we returned Maunie to the scrubbing grid, this time starboard side to the quay wall, and waited for the tide to drop. Her natural heel to starboard meant she rested nicely against her fenders and as she touched down we got on with the job of fitting a new water filter in the galley.
Ten minutes later, a routine check on deck and, to our horror, we discovered that a rogue wave must have lifted the boat and we were now settling down with the mast pointing firmly away from the wall! The results could be disastrous (a possible boat-flooding opportunity if she was allowed to lie down on her port side) so we had to move fast, rig a spinnaker halyard from the masthead and winch ourselves over 'top-dead-centre' to get her firmly back against the safety of the wall. Once achieved we paused to let our heart-rates recover!
Anyway, after this moment of panic, the rest of the day went well and we gave the hull a full coat of antifouling, added some noxious, anti-barnacle red grease to the propeller and polished the rest of the hull just in time before the water returned.
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