Hello from the marina

Work has been steadily progressing over the last couple of weeks. And I have had the Marine Engineer down to sort a few fairly important issues.

Firstly my battery charger had apparently failed setting off a low charge alarm on the inverter. Cue me tearing the bed set up apart to find out where the alarm was coming from. Inverter switched off alarm silenced…bliss. Apart from the utter devastation I caused detroying the bed set up to get to the inverter. Engineer sets about tracing the fault only to find that he had accidentally switched the battery charger off on his last visit as it was not labelled correctly. Oh well cheap fix and now labelled correctly.

For some reason the previous owners had cut the rain water runoff pipe from my stern deck short and instead of running into the bilge pump it was dumping into the engine drip tray and sitting there turning into a lovely sludge with spilt diesel from the heating system which had been overhauled. Pipe extended, additional pump for rainwater installed and about 40 lires of oil and water cleared out of the engine bay .

On the interior renovation side of things, the bedroom cabinets have been removed, the ceiling repaired and a folding kingsize bed base built ontop of the existing bed frame. This solution maintains the existing sub base storage as well as leaving the electrics and waste tank intact beneath the bed.

The bathroom has had the toilet and sink removed and the rotten floor replaced.

Lastly the kitchen has started to look more like a kitchen again with the sink base unit now in place and worktop hopefully being installed over the weekend.

With the safety certificate inspection due next week things are progressing at a pace now, thankfully