(Tuesday)
There really isn't a lot to write about today. I went for an early morning walk, Jane slept late, we had breakfast, Jane went off shopping, I dozed.
Then I went aboard Laurin and modified the faulty bilge pump switch so that it worked although in the process, and to my considerable annoyance, I slightly melted the plastic housing with the heat of the gas soldering iron.
Given that a few weeks ago I managed to melt a hole in the Treadmaster anti-slip matting in our cockpit with an identical tool whilst doing some rope work, I'm going to have to be a lot more careful in future (some plumbers heat mats would be handy). You don't get the same problem with an electric iron either, it's the very hot jet of heat from the catalyst vent that does the damage.
Anyway, no great harm done. The switch unit is in an out of the way location and hasn't cost a penny (a full refund having been proffered because it was faulty). Oh and I managed to drip hot solder onto Karen's hand for good measure but five minutes in cold water sorted that out.
I do like the system with the switch setup. Two float switches, one higher than the other, with the higher one both triggering the pump and sounding an alarm. I might incorporate something like it in our setup
Anyway, that'd whiled away an hour or three. Then it was off to the Parlour Cafe at Creeksea by Landrover. The intention had been to walk there along the river bank but some pretty vigorous showers were blowing through. The kids had fun in the garden, we all had delicious ice cream and the grown ups had coffee.
Back to Burnham and a tidy up on board was swiflty followed by the hop, skip and jump down the pontoon to dine aboard Laurin again! The planned pizza night was cancelled in favour of pasta night due to the stiff breeze defeating Patrick's best endeavours at lighting the Cobb oven!
Whilst dinner cooked I restrung AJ's guitar with the strings I picked up in London. Being nylon of course it's the very devil to get the strings to hold their tuning as they tend to slip and stretch when first fitted. We'll see whether it's been a success on the morrow, it's quite common to have to redo a string or two
We made severe inroads into the Erbas red wine lake, in fact there's now only one and a bit bottles left, accompanied by pleasant conversation about sailing, life, plans for the weekend etc.
The Laurins are off to London again tomorrow so Jane and I took our leave before we'd totally outstayed our welcome (I think we got away with it anyway!). We're going to get some chores done and then see about going out for a meal
For a day when we didn't do a lot, there turned out to be quite a lot to write about!
There really isn't a lot to write about today. I went for an early morning walk, Jane slept late, we had breakfast, Jane went off shopping, I dozed.
Then I went aboard Laurin and modified the faulty bilge pump switch so that it worked although in the process, and to my considerable annoyance, I slightly melted the plastic housing with the heat of the gas soldering iron.
Given that a few weeks ago I managed to melt a hole in the Treadmaster anti-slip matting in our cockpit with an identical tool whilst doing some rope work, I'm going to have to be a lot more careful in future (some plumbers heat mats would be handy). You don't get the same problem with an electric iron either, it's the very hot jet of heat from the catalyst vent that does the damage.
Anyway, no great harm done. The switch unit is in an out of the way location and hasn't cost a penny (a full refund having been proffered because it was faulty). Oh and I managed to drip hot solder onto Karen's hand for good measure but five minutes in cold water sorted that out.
I do like the system with the switch setup. Two float switches, one higher than the other, with the higher one both triggering the pump and sounding an alarm. I might incorporate something like it in our setup
Anyway, that'd whiled away an hour or three. Then it was off to the Parlour Cafe at Creeksea by Landrover. The intention had been to walk there along the river bank but some pretty vigorous showers were blowing through. The kids had fun in the garden, we all had delicious ice cream and the grown ups had coffee.
Back to Burnham and a tidy up on board was swiflty followed by the hop, skip and jump down the pontoon to dine aboard Laurin again! The planned pizza night was cancelled in favour of pasta night due to the stiff breeze defeating Patrick's best endeavours at lighting the Cobb oven!
Whilst dinner cooked I restrung AJ's guitar with the strings I picked up in London. Being nylon of course it's the very devil to get the strings to hold their tuning as they tend to slip and stretch when first fitted. We'll see whether it's been a success on the morrow, it's quite common to have to redo a string or two
We made severe inroads into the Erbas red wine lake, in fact there's now only one and a bit bottles left, accompanied by pleasant conversation about sailing, life, plans for the weekend etc.
The Laurins are off to London again tomorrow so Jane and I took our leave before we'd totally outstayed our welcome (I think we got away with it anyway!). We're going to get some chores done and then see about going out for a meal
For a day when we didn't do a lot, there turned out to be quite a lot to write about!
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