There's very little - okay, nothing - happening on the boating front at the moment. All of our hectivity has been focussed on things domestic, and I quite forgot to post the following...
Arriving back at the boat on Wednesday, we were amazed at the temperatures registered on the max/min thermometers in the boat.
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| In the dinette... |
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| the bedroom... |
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| and under the cratch cover |
Lee and Roy of "Days Afloat" visited to fit a new floor in the "cupboard" (I really don't know what to call it) under the well-deck. They did a really nice job, of course. It was good to be able to look under water tank before they fitted it, to see the internal condition of the hull at the front of the boat - some mild surface rust that doesn't merit any kind of treatment. Fitting the floor involved removing the safe from the cupboard, a 56 lb steel box that had been fitted when the boat was built. Having nothing of any great value small enough to put in the safe, we would rather have the space it occupied. We call this cupboard "the larder"; it's always pretty cool, and we store vegetables and fruits in it.
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| A tidy version of our safe! |
Having decided that the stern gland greaser was definitely knackered, we drove out to Calcutt Marina's chandlery to buy a new one, still to be fitted.
We might get back to Kantara some time!
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The apology.
I know that several of you are readers of my "Hints and Tips..." book, and I have in the past made a habit of telling you on this blog whenever I update the book's Addendum Blog. I fear I've not done that with the past few additions, so please visit the blog now (web address in the book) to see what you've been missing.
