{"id":7912,"date":"2017-08-03T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:53:23","slug":"stripping-slime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/stripping-slime.html","title":{"rendered":"Stripping slime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as well as &#8216;finishing&#8217; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/stripping-paint.html\">paint stripping job<\/a> in Fly&#8217;s main cabin, I took the pressure washer to her decks and topsides&#8230; not for a really thorough clean when she <em>keeps<\/em> getting filthy sitting there long-term (already been cleaned several times during this lay-up period!) and the time for proper cleaning and (where appropriate) polishing is <em>after<\/em> the winter, but still looking and feeling much the better for it (compare 2015\/16&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/back-to-fly-again.html\">window aperture<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/fly-has-windows.html\">window fitting<\/a> photos).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-1-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-1.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-2-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03deck-2.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-1-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-1.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-2-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-08-03hull-2.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Might also point out the cable crossing from house to boat in the second and last photos; I had an IP66 double socket put in up there when I was getting the sheds wired up, so safe &#8216;permanent&#8217; power when Fly&#8217;s there and simply unplug when she&#8217;s not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as well as &#8216;finishing&#8217; the paint stripping job in Fly&#8217;s main cabin, I took the pressure washer to her decks and topsides&#8230; not for a really thorough clean when she keeps getting filthy sitting there long-term (already been cleaned several times during this lay-up period!) and the time for proper cleaning and (where appropriate) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11672,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions\/11672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}