Cleaning...

Dalriada was green in colour, rather than her usual blue and red, courtesy of a mild winter and not getting to her since February. Four hours of scrubbing, washing, turning her in a stiff breeze and all the usual boat-husbandry activities later and she is looking bright and shiny. There's always more, of course. Oil needs to be changed, and the blacking could really do with being renewed, but that is a rather big and challenging job. But it has to be done...