We thought that to conserve water the lock opening times into the marina were limited so we headed for the 11am. lock. As it turned out we could probably have locked in at anytime. Anyway, the lock keeper had us straight in. The mooring pontoon in the lock had been taken out so that a …
The Spring Bank Holiday, but it didn’t really feel that way with a chilly north easterly breeze and overcast skies. We felt there was no point trying to head off anywhere so decided to go for a long walk instead. First of all we made use of the shower and laundry facilities in Woolverstone Marina. …
Rowed across to Alethea, Tony, Winnie the dog and crew’s yacht for coffee and cake. Very convivial and then we waved them off as they headed back towards Titchmarsh Marina where they had left their cars. Tony kindly swapped a full Camping Gaz bottle for an empty one as he knew he could obtain a …
Richard did the Ipswich parkrun which was about 3.5km away. He met another runner on the way so at least he didn’t become lost. A quite tough, undulating, single lap course, mainly on grass, around Chantry Park. Richard finished in 31 mins 40 seconds and was third out of three in his age category, the …
Babysitting day so Anne left early to catch the train into London to look after Jiya. Richard washed the boat down and cleaned the decks and cockpit. He then rubbed down and varnished the teak capping around the forward hatch and the heads hatch. A combination of condensation around the aluminium frames plus the leak …
