Monday 10 January 2011

Ice, Ice and More Ice

It just refuses to go away, the ice that is. Despite a weekend of gradual thaw a very sharp frost this morning has set us back to square one.

We have, however, at long last freed Naughty-Cal from her icy prison. She now has a larger pool of water to float in after a couple of hours of ice breaking with a spade and some help from the engine. It is quite pleasant to spend time on a boat that is now moving and floating as normal. We almost had to gain our sea legs again. We had forgotten just how much she moves when free to do so.

The weather forecast looks hopeful for this week though with no sub zero temperatures forecast for the short term. So with a little bit of luck and a hope and a prayer we may have enough of a thaw to enable us to cast off and get in a small run out somewhere, anywhere but our berth.

The one good thing to come out of this big freeze is the amount of small odd jobs around the boat that we have finally completed. Some of which we have put off for over two years now. This weekend has continued the trend of completing odd jobs with a few minor running repairs and cleaning tasks finished. At this rate the boat wil be ready to use come spring with no jobs to finish, which will make a change.

One larger job on the list is getting the canopy repaired and modified, but as usual the chap we use is run off his feet. We hope that the repairs will be completed before our first major trip of the year at Easter. Fingers crossed.

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