Newly Blacked
New Anodes and a hull re-blacking. Looks pretty good At the same time they’ve fitted a new weed hatch and replaced the propshaft and stern tube plus fixed the rudder which was a bit wobbly.
Gas and Electricity
We had another working weekend on the boat this last weekend and we were tackling two pretty big projects: 1) Replacing the gas cooker 2) Replacing the fridge. We had found a very good LPG cooker on line which has flame failure devices on all burners and an electric ignition driven from a battery. Its […]
More painting
The Shroppie seems to have been plagued with closures this year and Wheaton Aston Lock No 2 seems to have now fallen to bits and could well need some major work on its gates. So maybe its a good thing that Nick and I are only going up this weekend to do some more painting […]
Working Weekend
We had a very productive weekend working on the boat. The floor in the back cabin had become a bit bendy. Its a plywood floor and is 22 years old and its got damp over the years and had a lot of people walking over it. So we lifted the boards. Basically they had delaminated […]
Back at “Home”
Well the BSS work was finally complete (See Steve’s Blog for more info ) so today we headed up to Norbury Junction to pick up the boat and return it to its moorings at Market Drayton .It was nice to see some sun and to be back on the canals. There was a moderate amount […]