A mixed Sunday

As forecast yesterday, we did indeed have a decent lie in this morning, though we were still up and about comparatively early according to the reset clocks. After that, things got a bit less satisfactory though.

My main task this morning was to service the Hurricane; it needs doing every 1000 hours and it seemed like a good idea to do it promptly with winter coming on. The service went off as usual, but when I went to fire the boiler up again it declined to do so. It made an attempt at starting three times then shut down with the error message “Flame out”.

I took the cover plate off again, made sure that I’d put everything back correctly, but no joy. The manual recommends resetting and trying again a few times in case there's an air lock in the fuel supply, but after six times three attempts it still wasn’t working. I’ve checked that there’s plenty of fuel in the tank and that it’s coming through the inline filter OK; the other common problem is low voltage, but with us on the shoreline and the DC side at 13.5 volts, that’s not going to be it.

There’s nothing for it but to leave it until the morning when I can ring Braidbar and ask for advice.

I’d just finished all this when there was a call from the marina office; the central heating in Walnut wasn’t working either. It had been fine earlier in the week, so there was nothing I could suggest. Stuart the marina handyman went in and found that the boiler had locked out and got it reset with no trouble.

We’re just back from having a cup of tea with the tenants; Pam and Geoff are a lovely couple and very pleased with the lodge, so it was a good end to the day at leat.

Tomorrow we have the pleasure of entertaining Des and Gill to dinner. Fortunately the lack of central heating on the boat won’t be a problem; we’ve got the Squirrel for warmth and the immersion heater for hot water until we can get it sorted.