Thursday 19th July 2018



Brenda spent the best part of the morning trying to chase a surveyor, for an RCD check or a boat survey. But they were all either retired or couldn’t carry one out for whatever reason.

She also rang Swanley Bridge and spoke to Andy to put him in the picture, if only to safeguard the boats presently in build or at least forewarn them.

She then rang Kings Lock Chandlery in Middlewich for advice. They are a major distributor of Morso stoves. According to them there is no requirement for fireboard or any other so long as the minimum clearances given in the installation manual are adhered to. The minimum clearance behind the stove should be 200mm, ours is 40. Trouble is, I fitted the stove, albeit to Graeme’s instruction.

We are thinking of finishing with the electrical work and then just taking off and enjoying the boat and cross any bridges later.

Sandra started on the changes to the electrics and there is a massive improvement on what they were already.

I cut a hole in the rear cratch bulkhead to relocate the engine control panel into the cratch. This way it can be seen from the helm position.

Brenda in the meantime, more to get off the boat than anything, walked all the way into Northwich. She finished up walking 8.26 miles according to her FitBit. Post that was redirected from ExPost was picked up at the Post Office, nice to know the system works. ExPost is a company set up for boaters mail. Their address is used for your home address and any mail sent there. They will then send on any mail to wherever they are instructed.

One letter, totally out of the blue, were cheques for compensation from Clydesdale Bank due to PPI, another was informing us that my early Merchant Navy pension kicks in on my next birthday.

Not such a bad day after all.

Sandra has another job to go to tomorrow morning and another on Saturday morning.

But hopefully we will be finished by Monday.

Walked to the Broken Cross again for our dinner. The galley is too full of tools and bits and pieces to prepare any meals.  










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