Update: Since I'm traveling from CO to MI for short weekend trips to work on getting my little sweetheart Catalina 30 all squared away, I didn't have time to dilly dally a week ago worrying too much about the small cracks in the keel area (I'll give them proper attention when she comes back on the hard in about 7 weeks). Long story medium; I got her splashed, stepped the mast, got the M25 purringlike a kitten (after eventually locating the replacement filter element for my old off-engine Dahl filter/separator and bleeding the air out), and moved her about 60 miles north from Gibraltar, MI up to Anchor Bay.
I'm going back for another very short visit this Friday to solve as many more issues as I can, with the hopes that I'll be able to finally hoist some sails on the following visit a couple weeks later. I created one of my bigger challenges when I accidentally dropped a part for my Hood 810 Seafurl LD into the water when trying to attach the forestay. I dropped one half of the two piece "tack socket" right into the drink, and couldn't for the life of me feel it out of the foot deep silt with my toes in the 7 foot deep boat well.
My list of things to do include (not necessarily in this order):
1) Confirm that my bilge pump's water detection circuitry is functional and actually turns the pump off and on so I can leave the swith on (I wasn't aware that the Rule-Mate 750 had this feature and just thought it odd that there wasn't a float switch in the bilge). I paid a boat neighbor to visit my boat daily and use the hand pump in the cockpit to remove any water that accumulates.
2) Confirm that my ProMariner battery charger is working correctly.
3) Reseal a couple window leaks (one that dripped pretty fast in a hard rain last week).
4) Put my new bosum's chair to use to climb up the mast and attach the the one lower shroud that I didn't have a clevis pin for but have since ordered from Catalina Direct (and install new LED lights while I'm up there). Also attach the boom to the mast with the new bolt that I ordered.
5) If I can locate the replacement "tack socket" mentioned above (item 1 & 2 in the parts diagram below), install that and get the furler all squared away and maybe unbag my jib sail to see what it is and put it on.
6) Put a flat blade screwdriver in the top of my stuck macerator pump and see if it will free up. If needed maybe I'll pull it apart and cleanup any found obstruction.
7) Inventory all halyards, sheets and lines to see if any are serviceable and what I have to buy. I suspect that I'll be confirming that I don't have a tall rig, confirming all the lengths, and replacing all of it on the following visit two weeks after this next one, but if I'm really lucky and it appears that it's safe to do so, I wouldn't mind raising a main this weekend just to try her out for a few minutes.
8) Put my new tension guage to use and adjust the standing rigging prior to step 7 above.
9) If I'm lucky enough to locate a replacement plastic top piece to replace the cracked one on my Jabsco manual head pump, I'll replace it, or if I locate a whole pump assy that doesn't cost about the same as the entire toilet I might swap the whole pump. It appears maybe someone left some water in it to freeze.
10) Sort the wiring on the heavily weathered MK172 depth sounder and see it it comes to life.
11) Polish the glass on the old Contest 100 compass so that it's usable, and sort out the light for it.
12) Do the other 100 things that I'm not thinking of at the moment LOL.