Cleaning metalwork

The children of friends of ours do the deck cleaning for us. This is a weekly task and involves two things: One, a complete clean of the deck, using detergent and water and secondly cleaning the stainless steel and aluminium and all the other metalwork on the boat.

Normally it takes about one hour for the deck clean and a second hour is spent on the metalwork. However, we're waiting for a new sails which should arrive within a week and so we haven't been out for a few weeks and the deck hasn't needed cleaning. So... Jacob and Marie have been busy with cleaning the metalwork.

Cleaning the metalwork takes a lot longer than an hour, and involves a lot of what we in the UK call 'elbow grease' in other words, hard work. So I bet the kids are looking forward to sailing again so that it will be half deck clean and half metalwork!