Batteries - Part 3

Well its all change on the batetry front, again. You would think buying a set of batteries would be easy wouldnt you?

Anyway, the good news is that the leisure batteries can be picked up on friday, which means we can spend saturday morning installing them and also happily means that we can have a reliable power supply for our overnighter at Saxilby on Saturday night and Sunday morning. The other bonus is that our LED bulbs have finally arrived so we can install those as well and drop our power consumption a little.

The bad news is that the starter battery we had found isnt currently in stock and we will have to wait a few weeks for it. We will just have to hope and pray that the existing starter battery holds out another few weeks.

To offset that little nuisance though we have had a chance find. Since we bought Naughty-Cal a couple of years ago we have been wanting to replace the transom gate. The newer model Sealine S25, which is the same hull and superstructure badged up different, has a stainless steel gate which is much more pleasing on the eye than our current perspex jobby. We had a quote from a Sealine parts stockist earlier this year and it was lets say a little too expensive at £675 plus VAT plus delivery. By chance yesterday I was looking through the pages of a sea boat parts website and low and behold they have genuine old stock stainless steel transom gates for £75 plus VAT. Needless to say we had to have one, so i bought one for the OH as an early christmas present. Hopefully it will arrive tomorrow. The other plus side is that we now know where we can get any Sealine parts we need. A shopping list is in order methinks.