On Sunday after a lovely weekend, Scott and I thought we'd sneak down to the boat for three hours without kids and . . . remove the air conditioner, maybe the holding tank, fix the furling and strip . . . the wood. So I started hauling off venting, bits of insulation, and so on while Scott worked above decks. Then I went into the port aft cabin and saw WATER!!!!! INSIDE THE BOAT!!! So I rather calmly asked Scott if it was supposed to be there and of course he went white, ran wordlessly down below and flipped on the bilge pump. We started working on our manual pumps as well, water was up to the floorboards from bow to stern and after a couple of hours determined that the sea cock was flipped open a hair when he removed the air conditioning unit, allowing a small leak that allowed water in over a day and a half.
Now we have a very clean bilge. Scott observed while pumping madly that at least this hadn't happened while sailing in the Atlantic.
Great. One more thing to worry about.
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