It's been a long hot day and all work and no play.
Jane set about reorganising the galley stores, cleaning all the locker spaces out and chucking out all the duplicate utensils etc
Meanwhile I turfed everything out of the cockpit lockers and had a good sort out. Most of the rope we'd acquired with the boat , of which the was quite a lot, I offloaded into the store on the grounds that I haven't used it in nearly a year so I don't need it on board
I did retain a couple of decent hanks of 12mm line (probably old halyards at a guess) for use as long mooring lines and a third 15m length I attached to the Grapnel anchor
Putting everything back in a neat and tidy more organised fashion achieved my main goal which was to get the inflatable, the liferaft and the cockpit tent into the port locker with the tent accessible without having to hoik the dinghy out
In the port locker the kedge anchor warp is now in a bucket, the bucket with a string on it is easily got at and there's space for the mooring warps. And there's now room for the whole fender collection in the cockpit bilge.
Having emptied the diesel cans into the tank, we set off for Asda to stock up the galley and drinks lockers ready for our trip to London in three weeks time (we won't want to be hanging about when we get to the boat that Friday, it's get on board and get going)
The galley stores didn't need too much adding to them but the drinks locket was definitely looking a bit lean. Happily (hic) it isn't now...
With the food and booze safely stowed away, I hauled the sails out of the locker under my berth to have a look at them. I decided to offload the No.2 jib into the store on the grounds that I really can't see us ever using it. The storm trysail nearly went the same way but as there was enough room under the forward end of the v berth for both it and the storm jib it stayed on board
That cleared a large locker space which is easily accessible into which went our boots, shoes and foulie bags. That in turn cleared the locker space under the saloon berths for the crew to stow their kit as we'll be four persons on board up to London and back
The second lot of diesel went into the tanks and I went back to Asda to refill the cans. The third lot had the tank breather burbling and the fuel gauge on full (albeit not quite against the stop). All told that's 47 litres into the tank today (it holds 68 and was by no means empty)
We should now have a good 40 hours of range on the main tank plus the refilled cans in reserve
The last job of the day was to put the cockpit tent away, tidy up and then dinner on board. After dinner we popped up to the pub for a swift one, got talking to some old friends and new and finally left when they locked the doors (with us on the outside unfortunately!)
Despite the mickey taking from some quarters ;) we were pleased with ourselves having put in a full working day in rather hot weather. Things are back where they ought to be and much better organised.
Tomorrow morning it's time to head for home as the dreaded work beckons
Jane set about reorganising the galley stores, cleaning all the locker spaces out and chucking out all the duplicate utensils etc
Meanwhile I turfed everything out of the cockpit lockers and had a good sort out. Most of the rope we'd acquired with the boat , of which the was quite a lot, I offloaded into the store on the grounds that I haven't used it in nearly a year so I don't need it on board
I did retain a couple of decent hanks of 12mm line (probably old halyards at a guess) for use as long mooring lines and a third 15m length I attached to the Grapnel anchor
Putting everything back in a neat and tidy more organised fashion achieved my main goal which was to get the inflatable, the liferaft and the cockpit tent into the port locker with the tent accessible without having to hoik the dinghy out
In the port locker the kedge anchor warp is now in a bucket, the bucket with a string on it is easily got at and there's space for the mooring warps. And there's now room for the whole fender collection in the cockpit bilge.
Having emptied the diesel cans into the tank, we set off for Asda to stock up the galley and drinks lockers ready for our trip to London in three weeks time (we won't want to be hanging about when we get to the boat that Friday, it's get on board and get going)
The galley stores didn't need too much adding to them but the drinks locket was definitely looking a bit lean. Happily (hic) it isn't now...
With the food and booze safely stowed away, I hauled the sails out of the locker under my berth to have a look at them. I decided to offload the No.2 jib into the store on the grounds that I really can't see us ever using it. The storm trysail nearly went the same way but as there was enough room under the forward end of the v berth for both it and the storm jib it stayed on board
That cleared a large locker space which is easily accessible into which went our boots, shoes and foulie bags. That in turn cleared the locker space under the saloon berths for the crew to stow their kit as we'll be four persons on board up to London and back
The second lot of diesel went into the tanks and I went back to Asda to refill the cans. The third lot had the tank breather burbling and the fuel gauge on full (albeit not quite against the stop). All told that's 47 litres into the tank today (it holds 68 and was by no means empty)
We should now have a good 40 hours of range on the main tank plus the refilled cans in reserve
The last job of the day was to put the cockpit tent away, tidy up and then dinner on board. After dinner we popped up to the pub for a swift one, got talking to some old friends and new and finally left when they locked the doors (with us on the outside unfortunately!)
Despite the mickey taking from some quarters ;) we were pleased with ourselves having put in a full working day in rather hot weather. Things are back where they ought to be and much better organised.
Tomorrow morning it's time to head for home as the dreaded work beckons
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