it's such a gorgeous day today we are in pangborn our first proper mooring on the thames this season
and hopefully this weekend we're not going to be moving because we had a very
intense a few days of cruising last weekend miles is not here today but he's back on
the boat tomorrow and i am going to go around and look after albert today there
are a few things that needed doing that we haven't done last weekend obviously
so i've got a few things on the list and if the weather stays like this i might even go for a dip
foreign
our trusty amazing washing machine that we've had for two years is having some trouble so
the main compartment for washing still works fine however the spinner drum no longer spins
i'm gonna take it out and see if there's any way i can pull it apart
and have a look if there's any belts that potentially come undone or anything else is
broken um ideally we wouldn't want to buy another one yeah i'm gonna try and fix it
let's hope this works
oh okay
i can't get one of the screws out because um
the handle of my screwdriver is not long enough just found another screwdriver that
is long enough i and i've been able to get the screws out so this is amazing i can continue
oops things are falling out one of the motors kind of snapped there is a metal damage so um that will
require welding to fix and i don't possess boarding skills just yet maybe late in life
i think that's a sad goodbye to our washing machine it was educational
to have a look inside though never know sometimes it could be easy enough to fix
that was ambitious
so
i am loving the light today pang bon is unbelievably beautiful
i'm going for a walk to save at the
moment
i haven't been for a run for a very long time i'm ashamed to admit i think the last time i
went was last september so it's now finally warm outside and i have zero excuses so today's the day
my friend is coming over to visit today and i'm not seeing her for a long long time i just wanted
to prioritize starting a running habit and i've been postponing it for so long so i did it this
morning however i've not tied it up at all so i'm gonna have a matt dash quickly clean everything
inside and out so the elbow is sparkling for my friend to to to come and visit yeah a better set
now
such a joy to be able to see friends again after three lockdowns long winter
and cruising far away from london now the small challenge is to fit all of our stories from the
last 15 months of our lives into one conversation and so we spent the whole time talking
something really funny just happened when my friend anna was here we were sitting on
the roof and having a good old chat and all of a sudden this boat pulls up next
to alba and the guy is waving and he's saying asking is it alba and he says i'm doing your
boat safety certificate on tuesday and i've been in conversation over the phone with this person
for about a month trying to arrange the date knowing where we're gonna be
how he can come and uh park up and all of those very important details anyway he was having a
nice time out on his boat and i've decided to maybe um instead of text messages come
up and actually have a face-to-face chat so we arranged a reaching point and that was really
nice to meet him and i'm excited for albert to pass boat safety certificate we've never done
it before obviously because you only did once in four years but hopefully we're gonna be okay
so
just got that notification got myself a little kit from work which is very kind of them
so this is the magic juice i need to put in here
then the next i need to open this i need to put that down here and not touch it
this is the bit i don't like
and what i meant to do is put this in there all my orifices are now leaking
and then i think it's two drops in here we don't we want it to go past this one
so it's super clear so if it lands on c that's a good sign if it lands on c and t bad sign i've
got covid but if it lands on just t it means error but i can see the lines started on c
so we just need to wait half an hour and find out
since we installed our solar panels and by we installed me i mean the solar panels were
installed by dave we realized that our battery monitor is actually incorrect or at least we
think it is so in the solar setup part of the system is an mppt controller that does
something like converting solar electricity into 12 volt or something along those lines
and this one comes with an app on this app we can now see how much electricity is going
in and also what is the charge of batteries this means that currently we have two sources of
information of how our batteries are doing these two numbers are very very different for example
at the moment a monitor says 1292 volt of our batteries and the app says 1322 volts so that's
quite a bit of change how many amps we are getting in seems to be correct the monitor information
matches the app so that's cool and just what we've been doing we've have been only trusting
the app which often showing lower voltage in the evening and we are going by that
for now so if any of you know why this happened i have tried to reset the monitor many times i don't
know if the certain hard reset or something like that need to be done by completely disconnecting
certain parts i haven't done that i've just done the button manipulation so if you have any advice
let us know in the comments i just dropped the phone in the water i hope you waterproof i've
gotta go now this is what has been making noise i've got a rowing club training outside the window
just showing off that paintwork the fleet is here fleet is gathered we are here now
oh we made it today was one in four years type of day it was very unusual because today alba passed
her bird safety so we had a board safety inspector coming along checking everything and luckily we
passed i had a really nice guy actually come over didn't you yeah really nice guy what was your name
it's funny we had to move the boat nearer to where he was going to be this morning and
we moved i don't know like eight in the morning before work literally moored up
about 10 minutes before work sat down and he turned up he said this is the safest boat he's
ever seen no he didn't but we passed um he given us a couple of advices really happy we didn't know
what to expect because we've never done it before um but yeah elbow is good for another four years
what are these guys doing whoa oh he found a beach
it doesn't look like they're about tomorrow i think he's just pushing
on the other news two of our friends turned up yesterday on their boat so we now officially have
a fleet and we're going to stick together for a few months over summer no plans yet but we're
having our first fleet meeting so we're gonna have him first a flotilla meeting today flotilla
probably gonna go unnamed uh i think namaste navy is what it's called it's not going to be navy or
army reference they're namaste navy and we cruise up and down the thames while it's sunshining and
the only guns we have are water guns we don't even have water once we can get them now we're a navy
when we arrived in the thames all of a sudden the sun came out and the summer is here and
we're just thinking has it always been like this we just left the shelves um we're having a great
time i haven't had a dip yet so maybe she'll go now she'll go i'm not going for a dip why not
welcome to the very first flotilla meeting very exciting very exciting um i've got very little
battery so we're just gonna have to record whatever we can and trust us it was good
going with the flow the cruising crew cruisers and snoozes you cruise you snooze
the summer vibe tribe i like that one and the thames gems
i'm quite partial to you you cruise you snooze my snow is a little bit of crazy
okay so next item on the agenda is curry night curry night would anybody be interested in having
a yoga meditation routine so in the mornings at a certain time we could say that yoga meditation
would happen and then whoever wants to can join in the mars mystery area i've got two aob's the first
one is what toys do we need we've got paddle board we've got roam boat with an engine i'm gonna get i
think someone you know we're bringing that to the table someone needs to get one of them hoverboards
well you know if you could split it between you yes get a secondhand one yeah
and then yeah we'll have all the toys so that was airbean one aob number two apparently
there are boaters and particularly our kind of boaters you know narrow and narrow-ish boaters
who either love the canal or love the river and i was watching chugging along the other
day and they said people who love the river are called temseys so i think we're tenzies
yeah okay so do we have any other items of business for the flow tiller meeting today
i think the meeting is is closed now and our next meeting is going to be in a week's time
okay another week's time yeah yeah sounds good see you next tuesday
okay meeting closed yes
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