We begin with the usual tale of a few hours sleep after work, chucking the bags in the car and driving through the Friday afternoon traffic to Fambridge
Actually, the traffic wasn't too bad and we made decent time arriving at the moorings around half past five
It was slightly inconvenient that the pontoon was chocker block with boats. Judging by the burgees and bunting some sort of club outing.
This would, in the past, have been a downright nuisance but with the new RIB and the outboard it was no real hassle to ferry our kit out to the boat on her mooring
Our arrival was well timed, we'd not been long aboard before the tide turned and with a moderately brisk easterly breeze a bit of a chop got up. Not enough to make life unpleasant though
After a quick sort out below decks we were soon back in the dinghy and heading ashore. The pub was busy for a Friday what with the visiting yacht crews (turns out they're from Woodbridge), a motorhome rally in the field next to the pub and it being a sunny summers evening
Ian of Apogee fame popped his head round the door about half an hour later and we transferred the liferaft, which you'll recall was aboard Apogee for their trip to France, from his car to ours before he joined us for a swift one. Our food arrived half way through that pint and Ian headed for home shortly thereafter.
We were tucking into a third pint for me and an ice cream for Jane when it started to get rather dark and ominous looking.
A wander outside to look south had me paying the bill and abandoning half my beer as we legged out back to the yacht station and motored swiftly back to Erbas
The sky was something to see...
and barely five minutes after we were back aboard the rain started. That was followed by some fairly spectacular lightening which rarely photographs well but using the timeslice feature on the phone I got something...
This was accompanied by some fairly windy conditions and followed by a spell of heavy rain. After the show was over I settled down and nodded off to sleep (Jane had been asleep within minutes of getting back aboard and missed the show!)
I woke again a couple of hours later feeling hot, stuffy and with a bit of a headache so I've been up a while now with a breath of fresh air, a decaf coffee and a couple of Anadin Extra. Just thinking of heading back to bed but I hear rumbles in the distance
Oh and we have a bit of an issue with the domestic battery bank. It's well down on charge and low on voltage which is ridiculous after barely a fortnight. The only thing left on was the main bilge pump and there's no water in the bilge so that can't have been running
Something is eating the voles!
We're either going to have to get on shore power by tomorrow night (Erm, tonight I mean!) or run the engine for a good while as we've got fresh food in the fridge
We also need to investigate the electrics. (I'm wondering if the battery monitor itself could be the culprit). We could really do with at least one solar panel to keep the batteries topped up too.
Actually, the traffic wasn't too bad and we made decent time arriving at the moorings around half past five
It was slightly inconvenient that the pontoon was chocker block with boats. Judging by the burgees and bunting some sort of club outing.
This would, in the past, have been a downright nuisance but with the new RIB and the outboard it was no real hassle to ferry our kit out to the boat on her mooring
Our arrival was well timed, we'd not been long aboard before the tide turned and with a moderately brisk easterly breeze a bit of a chop got up. Not enough to make life unpleasant though
After a quick sort out below decks we were soon back in the dinghy and heading ashore. The pub was busy for a Friday what with the visiting yacht crews (turns out they're from Woodbridge), a motorhome rally in the field next to the pub and it being a sunny summers evening
Ian of Apogee fame popped his head round the door about half an hour later and we transferred the liferaft, which you'll recall was aboard Apogee for their trip to France, from his car to ours before he joined us for a swift one. Our food arrived half way through that pint and Ian headed for home shortly thereafter.
We were tucking into a third pint for me and an ice cream for Jane when it started to get rather dark and ominous looking.
A wander outside to look south had me paying the bill and abandoning half my beer as we legged out back to the yacht station and motored swiftly back to Erbas
The sky was something to see...
and barely five minutes after we were back aboard the rain started. That was followed by some fairly spectacular lightening which rarely photographs well but using the timeslice feature on the phone I got something...
This was accompanied by some fairly windy conditions and followed by a spell of heavy rain. After the show was over I settled down and nodded off to sleep (Jane had been asleep within minutes of getting back aboard and missed the show!)
I woke again a couple of hours later feeling hot, stuffy and with a bit of a headache so I've been up a while now with a breath of fresh air, a decaf coffee and a couple of Anadin Extra. Just thinking of heading back to bed but I hear rumbles in the distance
Oh and we have a bit of an issue with the domestic battery bank. It's well down on charge and low on voltage which is ridiculous after barely a fortnight. The only thing left on was the main bilge pump and there's no water in the bilge so that can't have been running
Something is eating the voles!
We're either going to have to get on shore power by tomorrow night (Erm, tonight I mean!) or run the engine for a good while as we've got fresh food in the fridge
We also need to investigate the electrics. (I'm wondering if the battery monitor itself could be the culprit). We could really do with at least one solar panel to keep the batteries topped up too.
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