Saturday 21 January 2023

All's still including us

We had a tentative plan to visit Percy this weekend for a few nights aboard. Family matters and another cold snap put paid to that little plan. We did still visit for the record and found a frozen marina and a frozen main line.... all is very much still around Great Haywood. 

You never fully know how your boat has fared over winter ( unless you live aboard) until you refill the water system and pressurise it and wait with fingers crossed for the pump to get to pressure ... and stop. Continued cycling gets you looking for the burst. I hope I'm not tempting fate here but we had a knackered water heater due to frost on Comet and a burst pipe on Waterlily due to the same. Time will tell....

Whilst marina living is easy it's not for us and we put the end of the year as a fate type date to see if any feelers for online moorings came up and nothing has. The plan B was to put Percy on brokerage  which we've not yet done but is looking increasingly likely if we don't get an offer of a mooring soon. Still very mixed emotions about it as going on board albeit briefly today reminded me how nice a boat we have and what great memories we have of being aboard at Fradey and Shebdon.

Fate.... she's Percy's mistress now !



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We've just been moored at Willowbrook Moorings on the T&M at Shardlow for three weeks. Might be worth giving them a bell as they had a couple of gaps, not sure it's what you are after. willowbrookmoorings.co.uk
Pip (NB Oleanna)

Nev Wells said...

Hi Pip, Thanks for the reply. We would prefer up closer to us and routes North. Having lived in Derby for 50 plus years we've done most of the surrounding area. But thanks again for the suggestion, I hope you are not too frozen in atm.

Nev