My retirement plan had always included working the first week of the next management year so I could provide a completed set of annual reports on some of the patient safety work and that was achieved from my perspective. The final report on “Pathology labeling and sample quality improvement” has been submitted for release but I… Continue reading April and early May 2023 – Retirement and a celebratory cruise to the Fjords.
August 2023 – Transport to Dorset, a launch and a very rainy first voyage across Poole Harbor.
Apologies for anyone who manages to read this post before I have caught up with the whirlwind happenings of the last 4 months but this one is almost a real time post (at least as my posts go !). You will be able to catch up eventually but for now the ‘missing ‘ progress… Continue reading August 2023 – Transport to Dorset, a launch and a very rainy first voyage across Poole Harbor.
March 2023 –
Rapidly heading for retirement and a house move to the south coast while also trying to make progress with two new additions to the collection of rental houses. The month started with a weekend trip to position our caravan on a seasonal pitch near Dorchester. That will allow us to look at areas where we… Continue reading March 2023 –
February 2023 – Change of plans for the launch.
February started off fairly well with acquiring a 5 Hp 2 stroke outboard motor second hand. Although the outboard is known to run (Matt saw it running when he picked it up from Manchester for me), there were a couple of potential problems with it which might be significant once I have a tender that… Continue reading February 2023 – Change of plans for the launch.
January 2023 – Count down to retirement.
The new year started with a birthday do for our daughter-in-law. Transporting one of Svetlana’s wonderful cakes proved a little challenging as the chicken house fell off it’s stilts on the first roundabout. I wouldnt include cake decorating in a list of my skills but I did manage a moderately convincing mending job. As you… Continue reading January 2023 – Count down to retirement.
December 2022.
“A lot of people were very glad to see the end of 2020 but the following two years havent really been that much better. For me this year has been a mixture of making progress on some of the smaller bits of the restoration interspersed with periods of other stuff that often feels like it… Continue reading December 2022.
November 2022 – Water tank fill plumbing.
I took the top off the original fiberglass water tank a long time ago (September 2019 ) because it was impossible to get good enough access to clean the tank and the outlet plumbing was very corroded. When I removed the lid I left the rest in and re-purposed the space as storage and somewhere… Continue reading November 2022 – Water tank fill plumbing.
October 2022
15/10/2022 At the moment she is not the cleanest looking boat ever but I suppose that is what should be expected from a six year repair project on an abandoned boat which has been carried out next to a farmer’s field and in the absence of mains power and water. Well it seems to me… Continue reading October 2022
Cockpit locker lids, anti-slip paint renewal & battery charging. 9th – 10th May 2021.
Despite all the work to create them back in November, I still hadn’t installed the cockpit locker lids onto the boat until after the companionway board revision was finished. This wasn’t a priority while the cockpit was always covered but I am getting close to being able to launch the boat and finish the refit … Continue reading Cockpit locker lids, anti-slip paint renewal & battery charging. 9th – 10th May 2021.
Head refurb.
The original marine toilet was bolted down on a small platform so that you sat with your back towards the hull. It has been out of the compartment for a couple of years now. When I got the boat it was already disconnected from the sea-cocks so I refurbished them but did nothing with the… Continue reading Head refurb.