Tuesday 10 April 2018

Fwd: Wow! 10 deg. C and sunny, crinan canal bliss



Hundalee Mill Farm
Jedburgh
TD8 6PA
T. 01835 869931
M. 07801 653830

Begin forwarded message:

From: Thomas Hawson <tom@thomashawson.com>
Date: 8 April 2018 at 20:10:55 BST
To: Sailing blog <tom2380.wilson@blogger.com>
Subject: Wow! 10 deg. C and sunny, crinan canal bliss






Hundalee Mill Farm
Jedburgh
TD8 6PA
T. 01835 869931
M. 07801 653830
www.thomashawson.com

Fwd: Finally!



Hundalee Mill Farm
Jedburgh
TD8 6PA
T. 01835 869931
M. 07801 653830

Begin forwarded message:

From: Thomas Hawson <tom@thomashawson.com>
Date: 5 April 2018 at 09:19:47 BST
To: Sailing blog <tom2380.wilson@blogger.com>
Subject: Finally!

Despite some crazy weather on the east coast with freezing easterly and snow we r about to set sail up the firth of clyde with a fresh sw wind to tarbet and begin this years sailing adventures with a trip through the crinan canal tomorow. Sorry elizabeth  F and f did give you a little kiss leaving the pontoon in the excitement!




Hundalee Mill Farm
Jedburgh
TD8 6PA
T. 01835 869931
M. 07801 653830
www.thomashawson.com

Tuesday 27 February 2018

Copper Coating – SJ Marine Services

https://sjmarineservices.com/copper-coating/

Thanks to the above company at Ardrossen marina for there professional advice.

Ill fitting battery terminal

Not only was this terminal working loose so was the main fuse connection, not a good situation! Good job i gave them a good tug test.

Monday 26 February 2018

High and dry

Chortle is presently high and dry on ardrossen's hard. With a forecast of -3'C for the next few nights and having wrongly assumed it would not get that cold on the west near the sea i had to go and pump anti freeze into the sea water cooling system of the engine and drain the domestic water pump, a job i had forgotten to do on Saturday. Now with the flue i did not want to go, but had little choice. Anyway i made it there and back and did the frost proofing and made use of my time going through wiring terminal checks, refitting some lights and having a meeting with the coppercoat man. He was very nice and politely agreed i could let the rusty blisters on the keel grow for a year or two with out any harm coming to then and blast it and seal it again when its got worse than it is now.