Good morning!

The day has arrived. It’s just a little after 6:30 on Wednesday 27th August and I’m up and about, ready to haul the boom and other last minute items onto the boat before it’s picked up at 9 o’clock.

I was working quite late last night to get the stove fitted properly on it’s gimbals, so it rock solid now. I ended up using “no more nails” tape strips, kind of like double sided tape, but much much stronger. On the packet they rated each short strip of the stuff to hold 2.75kg, and I used 3 of them so that’s at least a holding power of 8.25kg. Enough for the lightweight Origo 1500 stove I think. Especially since gravity and mechanical force is taking the weight, the “no more nails” is just stopping it from moving around.

I also got the electrics finally fitted. I replaced the 32amp Marinco socket I got sent by mistake (and fittedtp the boat, not knowing any better) and swapped it for the 16amp version. I still haven’t tested whether any of my handy work actually does work since I haven’t had chance to build the shore power cable. I need to buy a standard shore power cable from the on site chandlers, Mailspeed, when I get to Essex Marina and butcher it to fit the Marinco plug.

Ok, breakfast, shower, and then let the day begin.