A welcome day in port today. We did briefly debate pushing on but it was a very brief debate indeed.
We got going quite late in the morning and after resolving a technical problem with the track logger polished off a couple of tinned breakfasts for brunch
A bit of drama occurred when a Dutch boat arrived, came alongside and the skipper fell in whilst mooring up. Fortunately, no harm done and he was able to extricate himself with some assistance from his crew, myself and a passersby but it could have been very serious
Rik then headed for the showers at the municipal campsite - the new facilities in the harbour masters office are partially installed but some way from being ready - whilst I had a strip wash on board
During the course of my wash I discovered that the grey water sump pump wasn't. Pumping that is. On his return, Rik and I set about dismantling the damn thing and ascertained that the fault is in the sealed for life solid state switch.
We checked whether the chandlers had anything suitable to replace it with which they hadn't. We then debated transplanting the switch from the engine bilge pump but finally we settled on using the hose coupler I put in the odds and sods box for just such an emergency and bypassing the sump altogether
That leaves us back with the chore of having to manually activate the pump to evacuate water from the sinks but it's better than nothing.
After tidying up, I went for a walk to take some photos from the other side of the river. Then I had a nurdle on the guitar before we headed to the pub for food and beer
Tomorrow will be a late start as we've just a short ten mile hop to Lowestoft in mind. After that, we shall see
We got going quite late in the morning and after resolving a technical problem with the track logger polished off a couple of tinned breakfasts for brunch
A bit of drama occurred when a Dutch boat arrived, came alongside and the skipper fell in whilst mooring up. Fortunately, no harm done and he was able to extricate himself with some assistance from his crew, myself and a passersby but it could have been very serious
Rik then headed for the showers at the municipal campsite - the new facilities in the harbour masters office are partially installed but some way from being ready - whilst I had a strip wash on board
During the course of my wash I discovered that the grey water sump pump wasn't. Pumping that is. On his return, Rik and I set about dismantling the damn thing and ascertained that the fault is in the sealed for life solid state switch.
We checked whether the chandlers had anything suitable to replace it with which they hadn't. We then debated transplanting the switch from the engine bilge pump but finally we settled on using the hose coupler I put in the odds and sods box for just such an emergency and bypassing the sump altogether
That leaves us back with the chore of having to manually activate the pump to evacuate water from the sinks but it's better than nothing.
After tidying up, I went for a walk to take some photos from the other side of the river. Then I had a nurdle on the guitar before we headed to the pub for food and beer
Tomorrow will be a late start as we've just a short ten mile hop to Lowestoft in mind. After that, we shall see
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