BroadAmbition

Departed for home at 2210. Just stopped for scran and more importantly a coffee Griff

Visited client, fuelled up, went back home (forgot boat keys ) Departed at 1715, onboard for 2015. Kettle is on. No time for scran. Forgot my meds 😟 Griff

Stuff it then. Going to visit a client locally for an estimate in ten minutes then straight on my way via fuelling Trevor Transit - Norfolk (Stalham) bound Measure up / take notes Quick coffee, Drive back home What's 320 mile between friends on a Friday? Gotta get back tonight as a stack of stuff to do tomorrow here at home / daughters Queen - 'Under Pressure' Griff PS - Thanks for the offers of gratis / loan gear too

This isn't that straight forward, can't order gear without visiting onboard to take some measurements I'm not sure if our pos and neg battery posts are the same size and need to know which size too even if they are the same To change over to vertical studs I will need new multi strand cable throughout as all ours have soldered ends to comply with the BSS where the cables are clamped onto the battery. To change the ground cable over to the opposite end of the battery run will need a longer length of cable too for both banks and I don't know how long New pos and neg cable throughout plus longer ground cables - £80:00 - ish 12 x vertical studs - £40:00 26 x ring crimp cable lugs - £52:00 Plus I need to borrow a crimping tool for the cable lugs I had intended to sort this lot next visit but I need to get down there and take some measurements. That means two round trips = 640 miles B O A T = Bung On Another Thousand (Yet another one) Griff

Tks. We have both solar and shore power. Rarely do we disconnect the batteries, we do have a master breaker switch though Griff

Yes he will have and I hope they give him years of service Having three batteries in each bank I’m going for option one of your two diagrams I’m going to have to get hold of two longer lengths of multi strand ground cable. I’m on it. Tks Griff

Would he then have been "under the influencer" ? Ha Ha, very good 'He' most certainly would have been (Already was) Griff

The simple reason I cannot attend is that on 17th May all day I will be at Lambton on a team clay shooting event which Griffs Growlers are attending, I'm team captain and all four of us must be in attendance. This was booked (And paid for) ages ago now On the upside however the following weekend I will be onboard for a long weekend afloat Griff

Sunday morning 21st April Up fresh, heating and morning tv on - No issues and new batteries held up to full expectations. Did some more bank clearance, I can report that I am now well past that tree and reckon I have cleared another good ten feet - Until the next time then I then produced a FCE for the pair of us, then after clearing up we sailed for the wetshed. No need for a pump out as the heads had hardly been used What was it with the blasted wind? not only was there too much of it, it was just far too cold. I wanted to give the topsides a proper wipe down as apparently it had rained overnight but had to give it up as my hands were going numb Into Wetshed - Quick clean through and we departed for home. I left at 1250 and got home for 1600 so only just made a family dinner in a local pub at 1615 - that was a close call So, a good if short weekend afloat. For those of you that have not yet met 'Aboattime' - He is a thoroughly nice chap (For a southerner), good company an experienced helm, and a former boat owner. It was a pleasure to have made his acquaintance Griff

Saturday 20th April Up and at em early on. Batteries changed over, the old ones were collected and away. Forumite 'Aboattime' arrived as planned, off we went to the Rainbow cafe on Stalham high street, then to Tesco's for victuals to see us through to Sunday forenoon so didn't need much. Filled 'B.A's water tanks, completed our pre sailing preps then set sail around lunchtime with aboattime on t helm. It was windy and the wind was proper cold so the heating was firmly on. Ludham bridge was showing 7ft8" at best which should have meant just 1" clearance there was of course more like 3" clearance so we could thankfully leave the canopy up We arrived with no dramas at Thurne Dyke. However by now I had consumed far more vodka and orange than I really should have. No reason other than it was there and I didn't want it going out of date and I was taking advantage of having an experienced helm onboard too. Add in the fact that I don't really consume much alcohol at home either so not used to it. Two pints in the Lion and I was done for. So I left my helm with some fellow pub customers and staggered back to 'B.A' with Purdey dog in tow. Then it happened. I fell over a blade of grass, it was a particular tough blade of grass to actually leg me up. I was about twenty yards from 'B.A's well deck at the time. I thought to mysen, you know what? I'll just lie her for a while. Trouble with that was Purdey thought this was some kind of new game and proceeded to charge round at breakneck speed puppy like woofing her head off. All that succeeded in doing was drawing attention the the pair of us. Goodness knows how many attempts it took me to find mysen in the well deck but I can assure you it was way more than one. I do hope some bystander was videoing this sequence of events as it must have been hilarious Once inboard I had to snib the galley / well deck doors shut as the wind kept blowing them open, made my way to the wheelhouse which was nice and warm and collapsed into a slumber I was woken sometime later by receiving blows around the dish from one of our draft excluder sausages wielded by the helm. He claimed I had locked him out in the rain/wind, and could only raise me by leaning in under the canopy to reach said draft excluder sausage. You couldn't make any of this up could you? The daft thing was the doors on the sash sides were unlocked and all he had to do was give them a proper firm push and he would have been in! The next issue I faced was getting 'B.A' astern out of the dyke, I couldn't really ask the brand new hem to attempt this as it was his first time onboard and he had not got the feel of her, well not going astern anyhow. Somehow we made it and off we went to Griffs Corner with our new helm doing his thing. By the time we got there I was near back to normal operating capability and we moored up safe and secure on the rhond anchors it was by now 1820. A huge thanks to Aboattme for all his helming skills, mind you if he had not been onboard I would have never got mysen into that kind of mess in the first place I took mysen to task and got stuck into some bank clearance until dusk. We got the goggle box on the go, the heating was on, along with upper deck lights and plenty of inboard lighting I needed to give the 12 and 240v systems a proper long test. Helm produced evening dinner whilst I was bank clearing, Well past midnight both systems were just fine and dandy Lights out for around 0030 Griff

Yes I saw that too. Maybe we ought to alter them to the perfectly balanced connection method rather than the way they are now Griff

Out wi t'old 110 amph 'Travelbatt' batteries and and in wi t new 'Snappy' 130amph jobbies Couldn't test out the new small window vac as - sodding typical there was no condensation Saturday or Sunday morning, but the good news is that the blade is small enough (just) to fit between the canopy ribs, so best guess paid off for once Griff

Ditto wot the last three forumites said Griff

That’s me n Purdey onboard as of 2115. 3 x Hrs door to door which was a good run. Crack on with battery change in t morning Griff

Have you asked Paul? He might ok it Griff