We traveled up yesterday on a beautiful spring day with plenty of new born lambs frolicking in the fields,we transfered our clothes, food and other bits from our car to the boat, unpacked then Denise gave a clean to the boat whilst I tried to repair our tiller.
Some of you might remember from last year that we knocked the tiller out of alignment whilst in a lock, which meant that I had to hold the tiller arm at an angle as to manoeuvre straight, it's been a right B to fix, I have tried banging it with a lump hammer, with no joy so we bought a gear puller so that we might pull it off all to no avail, so I gave up for the day and we settled down by our nice warm stove for the night.
Today a cold overcast morning so we got up and paid a visit to the local Tesco for fresh supplies and then back to the boat and for me back to try and fixing then tiller, I spent ages putting this gear puller on and off and on and off, still I couldn't get the tiller arm off and gave up and asked our engineer at the marina to have a look. Ron the engineer came over with a gas burner heated it up and whacked it with a sledge hammer ..........job done, I spent hours trying to do it and Ron done it within minutes.
So a straight tiller again hooray, and back to the warm boat for another quite eveing, up earlyish tomorrow as a solar eclipse is due as long as the weather is kind to us, speak to you tomorrow .
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