We got stood up!…the electrician did say he would be a few hours after I called him in the morning. The initial electrician that we had called the evening before, and confirmed he was coming in the morning, got back in touch in the morning apologising for crossed lines as he was a rigger. Ah the irony…confusing rigging lines with electrical ones..ahem. So whilst I made the boat ship shape in the afternoon…a strange expression as its form remains unchanged, it retains the same boat dimensions but is only a bit cleaner…Lou headed off for supplies at the Asda, a 20 minute walk away. After a number of texts and unanswered calls the electrician texted back at 1800 to advise it was getting late…thereby adding ‘Speaking Clock’ to his extensive CV. Promising he would be there after lunch the following day I resolved to resolving the unresolved problem with the anchor windlass the following morning.
And I did! We’ll I didn’t resolve it but I traced the problem to a blown resistor/chip/valve thingy in the remote control handset. A new one has been ordered online to be sent overnight to our next stop at Aberystwyth Marina.
After a long walk with Bea we took the boat round to the fuel pontoon and filled the tanks for the next stage of our journey. All boat jobs done, we decided to take the train to Bangor Porthmadog. Not as pretty as I was expecting and full of train spotters. However, we did walk round to Borth-y-gest which is a very pretty little enclave.
We are set for an early start in the morning to sail against the tidal stream to make it in time to get over the bar at Aberystwyth before the tide goes out…time and tide wait for no man, ladies or fluffy dogs…night…night!
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