With just some more shopping and pott(er)ing on the schedule today, we had a lazy start. In the course of two trips to the village we firstly got some more supplies from the Co-op and the butchers and then left Sheila’s rings with the jeweller to be stretched. They’ll be ready on Saturday; we won’t be here then, but it means that we should be able to collect them when we come through on Monday.
The second trip was mainly concerned with plants and compost to fill the new trough. Sheila chose some blue and white pansy type flowers and the hardware shop was able to supply a handy 10 litre bag of compost.
The newly planted trough is out on the roof now; it looks a bit spare at the moment, of course, but there should be enough warm weather to come to encourage the six plants to spread out.
I’ve also been corresponding with Robert Neff at Mercia about the marina’s application for a good tranche of residential berths. What would be helpful would be some hard stats about how many liveaboard boaters out there would take up a legit residential mooring if one was available.
“Quite a lot” is the answer, but so many of us have got used to living below the radar either as continuous cruisers taking winter moorings or else by occupying officially leisure berths that firm numbers are difficult to come by.
Both CRT and RBOA can only produce broad estimates; 15,000 people is often quoted, but that feels very low to me, especially as that includes boats in coastal marinas and backwaters. There have been a couple of research projects published on CWDF in the past year or so, but again without finding very solid estimates of demand.
To finish, I’ve taken a couple of shots of new bits on the boat. The Nasa Marine Clipper gauge is still oddly shadowed; I don’t know where that’s come from as it can’t be seen in real life, only in the photos.
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| Electrics info and control: SmartGauge, Clipper, Mastervolt ICC |
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| New port navigation light |
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