Reasonably successful (and fairly expensive!) shopping day.
A combination of a pair of Gill junior sallopettes and a Hi-gear jacket (from a camping store - none of the chandlers had ANYTHING smaller than a size 10) has finally sorted Jane out with suitable foul weather gear.
We also threw in some decent sailing gloves, technical socks and a couple of new Crewsaver holdalls to stow it all in
The camping shop also offered up two nice new sleeping bags to replace the ones donated by my mum. The zips had gone on both of them and they were definitely due for retirement
As far as the hi-tech efforts went, I was disappointed that neither Foxes or Seamark Nunn had a suitable tiller pilot in stock. They both had a selection of larger units but I wasn't prepared to pay a hefty premium for a unit that would be total overkill on Brigantia.
I did purchase the Standard Horizon GX1600 VHF I wanted though. Mind you, I was then peeved to find that the mounting bracket is designed so that it can't be fitted on the deckhead as the old unit was. For now, its screwed to the cabin side just above the chart table but future plans will require it to be moved
I was a bit worried about the lack of anything other than hiss but we received the 19:10 marine safety information broadcast fine on ch.86 on the Bradwell transmitter. Just need to test the transmitter side now. I shall probably risk the ire of the etiquette police and ask the coastguard for a radio check on the morrow.
It was, by the way, quite a nice day when we set out. By the time we got back it was blowing a half gale. By the time we retired to the pub, the other half of the gale had turned up! Good job we're on the bank, if we were afloat I reckon life on board would be pretty miserable
Should ease a bit tomorrow and then get better during the week. Fingers crossed
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