Today, Ann had the dubious pleasure of going into the “pit”.  This area of Charisma is also known as the lazarette but when you see the pictures, you’ll get the idea.

One of the items on our project list is – “tighten wind vane bolts”.  It’s one of those projects that sounds simple, but the reality is this:  you have to empty the lazarette of all the junk that accumulates down there; you have to remove some cockpit drain plumbing and then someone “slim of frame” (note: this is not me) has to slither into the “laz”, then aft pass the steering gear to the farthest aft reaches of the boat to hold a socket wrench against the bolts that hold “Wilson” firmly to Charisma.  Check out the process.

Everything has to come out before we can go in.

Some of the stuff even has to go on the dock.

Here we go, got the headlamp on and everything.

You know I give Ann all the fun jobs. Here she's about to enjoy lazaretto diving with her socket wrench.