Cruising on the Staffs & Worcs
Awoke to a gloriously sunny day, so we had a lazy breakfast then set about various jobs onboard. I cut the perspex for the hatch cover. Then drilled and fitted it with the four bolts to keep it in place. meanwhile Heddi did the brasses. We had lunch sat out on the pontoon in the
Arrived at about 6:30, unpacked, cooked and ate a meal, finished a bottle of wine and went to bed !
Another bright sunny morning. We left just before 9:00 and cruised up to the visitor mooring at Stewponey . After a good healthy fried breakfast we went for a walk up from Stourton junction onto the Stourbridge canal. It looked really odd with no water in it. We were hoping to view the breach ,
We awoke to clear, bright skies so we got away earlyish just after 8:00. We hadn’t planned to go far, but thought we’d get going while the weather was good. As we were going through Wolverly it became clear that the loo was blocked/jammed ! We have a Techma ‘vacu-flush’ which was niether vacuuming nor
Just a weekend criuse with friends Jan & Mike. After an awful drive up the M5 with slow moving queues in very heavy rain we arrived just before seven o’clock. If the weather had been better, and we had been on time, we would have cruised to just outside the town for the night. But
Fairly short trip today, only about a mile. We wandered up to the High st in the morning and bought some stuff for a barbecue. The bucher had an array of exotic sausages including ostrich, kangaroo, wildebeest, etc. We bought a selection including kangaroo. We did a few jobs around the boat in the lovely
The plan for the week was to do the ‘Stourport ring’. Daughter Nikki & son in law Paul were due to come with us this week on Symphony and had booked their holidays accordingly. Now that we no longer had to be back by Friday morning we could go more leisurely over eight days instead
Heddi, Nikki and I arrived soon after lunch, unpacked the stuff and then drove to Sainsbury’s to stock up for the week. We didnt go by boat as we had to wait for Paul to join us after he finished work. While we were waiting I did a few odd jobs around the boat and
During the morning I fitted the battery after a visit to B&Q for some bits and pieces. Physically getting the battery in there went easier than I expected, but doing the electrical side was a bit tricky becuase of the limited amount of room to manouver the thick cables. I’d completed it by about 12:00
For some time I have been thinking of adding an extra battery to the domestic bank. JH has only two 135Ah batteries on the domestic side, which is rather less than most boats. We called in at Limekiln Chanlery in Stourport and picked up a new 110Ah battery and a battery box to put it