Laundry Day

Today was our first attempt at doing laundry on the boat. George fired up the Rainman and filled two 5-gallon buckets. I dropped a bag of Eco Nuts (thanks, Doug and Laura, for the suggestion) into one bucket to serve as detergent, put the sheets in the bucket and used the laundry plunger is an agitator. Then I moved them into the rinse bucket. After that the sheets went through the ringer we bought for the boat. Then we tied and clipped each sheet between a lazy jack line and shroud and allowed them to flap in the wind. The wind was in the high teens and we both imagined having to jump in the dinghy to retrieve them if they came loose, flew by and floated down the channel. Miraculously they stay attached and dried in no time. Next, we washed the rest of the clothes. Just as we were finishing clipping them to the lifelines it started to rain. We told ourselves it wouldn't last long and it didn't. After about the fourth rain we gave up and took the clothes down. Now, the
clothes that are still damp are hanging all over the salon on repurposed lee cloth lines.