Breakdown

Boats awaiting to go into the cow shed?



Hi everyone
I am writing again with more tales of woe, On Thursday we developed a clanging noise in the gear box, we decided to ere on the side of caution and have an engineer look at it. Fortunately we were calling in at Swanley Marina for fuel and pump out so we asked their engineer to have a listen and he confirmed my suspicions and warned not to go further because something was seriously wrong. The engineer cannot do anything until Monday so we have taken a birth in the marina for a few days, here we are being well cared for we have electric hook up, water, pump out and a laundry, and TV the only thing is there are no shops for miles so we will have to rely on emergency rations.
I will let you know what the engineer finds on Monday but I believe it will either be a broken drive plate or a twisted drive shaft which is consistent with hitting a submerge object, of which on this trip there have been many.
On the bright side we are having a great rest because here there is nothing to do but rest.
We have been for a walk around today exploring the place its very strange, they have a spraying service and a blacking service but it is in the farm buildings check pics very odd place to work on a boat.


Its now Tuesday and my thoughts have been confirmed its a broken drive plate, things did not go according to plan the drive plate was a cow to get out but hey that's life we have a new one arriving tomorrow and the engineer will fit it and we should be on our way again. The engineer has been very kind he even took Noreen to Morrisons today (it will no doubt end up on the bill)





We need now to start making our way back we have to be in Manchester for next Thursday as we have to go Rogers mums funeral Roger is on his way from Aus and we are all meeting up at Noreen's Dads





keep Smiling everyone





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