Howdy guys! Two stories for this update. First of the new stuff, kallum the aussie arrived finally from thailand, quite a crazy dude, unfortunately, while we went to pick him up at london heathrow we left the water on to fill our water tanks on the boat. While we do have a 640 gallon water tank, 6 hours of hose filling over flowed that so that when we got back water had been flowing into the bilges and the hold for quite a while, wouldnt of been a big deal except a bunch of real sweet books dave was saving for the ships library got soaked, so theres a pic of the flooded hold, and me cleaning it later haha. There was about 1000 gallons of water that overflowed because the hold was a foot and a half deep and the water was flowing into the engine compartment and had been flowing into our diesel tanks ( which hold 460 gallons) for a while. So that was a bummer but all clean now.
Other sweet stuff! boat is going well, should be gettin a lot of work done in the next few weeks. Also I finally made it to the ocean! Took a run there the other morning because its about 3 miles away. We are on the cardiff bay, but the bay has a dam with a lock between it and the bristol channel. The bristol channel has a 40 ft tide rise and fall which is ridiculous, the only way the bay can function is with the locks keeping it at high tide level the whole time. Heres pics of the bay and the crew, you can see how far the tide is out in some of them, its ridiculous. Take er easy guys!
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