Progress

It’s been a good week with progress on the jobs on Sanity Again. I’m glad I asked Peter Mason to sort repainting the engine bilge and felt a bit sorry for Austin. He’s been spending his time stripping back the old paint and rust with a mini-scabbler and a wire cup brush fitted to an angle grinder and when all else failed contorting himself whilst clutching sand paper. He then covered the whole area with Fertan, washed it off the next day and primed it. Today he put the first coat of Danboline on. It’s to have a second coat on Monday and the base of the stern bilge under the stern gland will be done with Comastic.

Peter has changed the weeping valves on the towel rail in the bathroom and we’ll have the stained wood of the pipe box replaced next week. Jonathon has fitted the new LED tunnel light which looks very smart. Other jobs to be done next week are fitting the bilge blower which hopefully will reduce the condensation problem and resetting the Webasto to run at a higher temperature, thus working it harder which is good for it.

Meanwhile, we’ve mostly been pottering apart from a trip down to Poynton on Tuesday to pick up the missing items from my prescription and do a bit of shopping in Waitrose. We’ll do another such sometime during the weekend.

John and Martina have arrived on Burnt Oak, the first arrivals ready for the Open Day and Owners’ Weekend next weekend. It’s on the second weekend of September rather than the first this year, giving a longer period from the August Bank Holiday but confusing one or two people. We’ve also had a chat with Barry and Annie from the Shouting End whilst we were on the water point at lunchtime today. Because I didn't want to run the engine or engage the prop whilst the Danboline was drying, we stern hauled Sanity Again to and from the water point to the mild bemusement of some folk sitting outside the Trading Post.

We’re now looking forward to a quiet weekend which will probably feature quite a bit of laundry, there not having been a chance to do it whilst people were working in the engine room.

Location:Higher Poynton