On the way round to Dolce's mooring, I tried taking some photos of the Christmas lights on some of the boats. It wasn't entirely successful, despite the use of the Gorillapod to fix the camera to the top of various fence posts, but I did manage this one:
I don't think camera shake was the problem, more movement of the lights themselves in the breeze.
On the way back, Jayne pointed out Takey Tezey to us, just a couple of boats away from Dolce, so Heth, your troubles may just be beginning…
/wahaha
Today, we pottered about doing on board stuff all morning, then had a call from Peter Mason at ten, confirming that he would be coming down with Andy Grindrod to fix a door on Dolce and investigate the cause of a water leak under their galley sink, and to look at our battery bank.
After going to Dolce first, he left Andy there sorting stuff out and came over to us for a chat and to top up the batteries. In the end, the answer was to dismantle the bank, taking each battery out, cleaning the terminals and topping it up.
This should extend their life for a bit; we'll see once they've been fully charged up and discharged a couple of times, but in the long run, replacing the batteries with ones from Pb Batteries that can be auto topped up is the answer, I reckon.
Meantime, I'm making progress on my book and Sheila on hers; whether we'll get them out in time for Christmas remains to be seen.
We also continue to struggle with Santander Bank, trying to get them to co-operate with Nationwide in transferring our accounts, but that's a tale for another day, when I'm feeling stronger.
/floor
4 comments:
Bruce,
Is there a reason why you are not opting for sealed batteries?
On the banking front we eventually ended up at Santander after starting with the post office (that is another story) we moved to the Coop and their transfer service was excellent. From a Spanish bank to a British cooperative, was the right decision to make in my mind.
Take care and Happy Christmas
Nev & Rachel
Hi
Peter doesn't like the idea, and going for deep discharge industrial standard beasts gives a longer life and, of course, you can discharge them down to 20% of capacity.
Now that we have a permanent mooring, popping back in to give them a good recharge blast overnight from time to time is much more feasible; this was my main concern when opting for leisure batteries as a CC, that we couldn't keep the traction standard ones properly "gassed off".
Have a good Christmas yourselves
All the best
Bruce
Well hello there!
Knock me down with a feather (Heather), I met Sue the other day, she seems really nice. What a flippin co-incidence if they're good friends of yours & we're opposite them!
Oh hek, you've found me now lol. Welcome anytime, except mornings lol, don't do mornings! :-)
Thursday was the day I did my back in, so while you were sat a few yards away having a good ol knees up, I was sat nearby in agony!! Lot better now tho :-)
Bring on the laughs :-)
Heth
Sorry, Sorry, it's Jayne not Sue! I'm just crap with names.
Do you remember I thought you were a Brian at first? Well it's now apparent that I can even forget a name just moments after having read it on screen - takes talent that :-)
From Dizzy...
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