After picking the Bosun up about five-ish, we battered our way through the traffic with just a couple of minor delays and a detour to try and find a Chippie to arrive at Fambridge just shy of eight-o-clock
A pub meal and a few beers ensued as you would expect. Back on board, the usual coffee and rum nightcap preceded pour settling down for the night
Glen slept well but I didn't. Not unusual on a Friday night but a nuisance never the less.
This morning dawned bright and clear so after bacon butties for breakfast we set to slapping on a coat of antifoul after which I retouched the boottop.
The Bosun applied a coat of varnish to the new cockpit for after which we popped to the Chandlers for some GRP filler to repair a hole in the engine well
With the hole plugged, I cut a ply patch and glued and screwed it over the repair to prevent the problem happening again - the hole was probably caused by the outboard leg chafing against the GRP and although it was above the waterline it wasn't enough above the waterline to ignore!
Then we heaved the outboard into place, took it out again, put it back, took it out and put it back! In the process we sorted out the positioning a bit (although major modifications may be in the pipeline) and resolved the issue we had with the engine kicking back when in reverse (OK, it has been resolved with a bodge but it'll do for now)
Tomorrow the outboard will need to come out yet again to antifoul the leg. Needs must.
With the rain now setting on for the day as forecast, we repaired below decks to fit the new battery charger, refit the depth/log display head and pay around with some ropework until the clock advanced to the point where we felt justified in declaring pub-o-clock
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