s/v YOLO Swab's Blog Day 269 Entry 059 Housekeeping aboard s/v YOLO Part 3 Manual and the Egg.

s/v YOLO You Only Live Once Swab’s Log Blog

Posting Date:  Monday,  February 9, 2014   
Day 269 Entry 0059

Boot Key Harbor and Marina Mooring #W10 http://www.ci.marathon.fl.us/government/departments/marina-and-ports/

Actual Date:  January 27, 2014 Monday    
Weather:   Cold. Cold. Cold.  But no snow!   Temperature dropped to 52 degrees and the wind gusted to 30 mph.  But it is warmer here than most places in the country!

Subject:  Housekeeping aboard s/v YOLO. Part 3 THE EGG

The ‘egg’ which is about 2 feet tall, sits on a table top.  Therefore, it is pretty small and doesn’t hold much.  The clothes are agitated by electricity or manually turning a crank on the side of the ‘egg’.  

 After reading the fine print, I found that it can only handle only 1 shirt at a time!!!  I never found out how much water it holds.  Couldn’t be much, I guess.   Agreed, exercise is good for me but; the ‘egg’ has to be cranked 150 to 200 times, to wash the one item.  Then drain the dirty water, fill it again with clean water, and crank it another 150 to 200 times to rinse.   How long does 400 cranks take – 5 or 10  minutes?  How hard is it to crank??  Are they kidding??   Why bother??  To wash just 10 shirts, I would have to crank the egg 4000 times.  I don’t think it’s worth my arm falling off to wash just 10 shirts!   I guess it’s a good thing that a bed sheet doesn't fit in the egg, since I have no idea how many cranks that would take!   So, Captain Steve and I agreed that eggs are meant for the frying pan not washing machines.  There has to be other options. 

Sea u later.  Housekeeping aboard s/v YOLO. Part 4.

s/v YOLO Day 268 Entry 0058 Housekeeping aboard s.v YOLO Part 2.THE P!LUNGER

s/v YOLO You Only Live Once Swab’s Log Blog

Posting Date:  Saturday, February 8, 2014   
Day 268  Entry 0058

Boot Key Harbor and Marina Mooring #W10  http://www.ci.marathon.fl.us/government/departments/marina-and-ports/

Actual Date:  January 26, 2014 Sunday   
Weather:   Cold. Cold. Cold.  But no snow!   Temperature dropped to 52 degrees and the wind gusted to 30 mph.  But it is warmer here than most places in the country!

Subject:  Housekeeping aboard s/v YOLO. Part 2 THE PLUNGER!

   
Lets look at the pros and cons of each type of clothes washer! We’ll start with the very basic  ‘plunger.’  I’m not crazy about standing over a bucket on the bow of the boat with a plunger hand washer.  Since the buckets that I have hold a total of 5 gallons of water, I might be able to wash 2 shirts.   Using 4 gallons of water I would have to allow for splashing due to agitation so I would have to reduce the water to 3 gallons.  That’s not much water and I have no idea how many agitations or 'plunges' would be needed to wash 2 shirts.  I have spoken to women who started out with this type of clothes washer.  The few that have used it said that after using it a few times they got so many blisters they gave  up and threw it overboard.  Actually I was told that a regular toilet plunger can be used.  I do not think that I can be considered 'high maintenance' even though I am quite repulsed by the idea of washing clothes with a toilet plunger that looks very similar to one used to unclog the toilet.  OK what’s next?

Sea u later!  Housekeeping aboard s/v YOLO Part 3.