After the fun of yesterday's slow run from Branston to here, we've had a day sitting on the 48 hr moorings in Alrewas. Elanor decided to collect Sally at lunchtime, as she won't be finished with her dog show until late, and we want to do some serious boating tomorrow.
Sally was, as usual, ecstatic to see Elanor back, and I've just had a phone call from Elanor to say the she went round the practice ring and only ran out three times, which is pretty good for her. When doing agility in an arena, the attraction of the wide open spaces just gets too much for her.
She has, however, just taken a red rosette in the "wag and catch" class. She'll wag her tail on command pretty reliably, and will catch biscuits all day.
Meantime, we put the afternoon to good use by doing a major service on the engine; oil and filter change, gearbox oil change, check the state of the fuel in the bottom of the water trap, tighten the stern gland, rotate the air filter in its housing. We also sucked a load of mucky water out of the stern bilge. Sanity Again still lets rather more water through her stern gland than I'm happy with, but maybe it's just the contrast with Sanity, which was an amazingly dry boat.
Tomorrow, we'll make an early start. We want to get a pump out at Fradley, then get beyond Kings Bromley if we can. We aim to be at Stafford Boat Club on Wednesday morning. We've booked a couple of nights mooring there, to be convenient for Graeme, Cathy and the boys to visit.
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