Recent content by Alicatt

This morning was called off, had to go to the doc with an infected mosquito bite I got on Wednesday, leg is red and swollen and now on antibiotics. While Mrs Catt did some painting in the cabin I rubbed down the window rubbers with some silicone oil to see if it will restore some flexibility to...

Mrs Catt has been busy today the insides are all painted, at least in undercoat, some top coat to go on in some places, all the old carpets are up and removed and are being used as a template for new vinyl flooring, we got the end of a roll, it was supposed to be 1.75m wide x 4m and we only...

Great to see you boat coming back to life 👍

Oh 100 litres of water in the tank sorted that fine

Slightly bow down but not bad

The “Betonplex” will be replaced with stainless steel when it arrives. Shelf still to go in above the sink and hob Mrs Catt is painting it up at the moment. The original shelf looked good but it was rotten in the core so I made a new one this morning before coming to the boat. Betonplex is used...

Grrr! Tech drawing with the sink was wrong, it was 15mm too narrow to let the sink fit in the hole, thank goodness the sink was larger than the hole :) It's hot today and there was a lot of movement on the canal it's a holiday here tomorrow so people taking the time to go for a sail ... lucky...

A few of those tick the boxes on our 45 year old boat, it is well past show room condition, the previous owner had the boat partially rewired - and I am still looking at the wiring in horror- he had a little work done and pasted over a few anomalies in the interior woodwork which I'm having a...

Oh boy did that hit home! our motorboat had an overpowering smell of diesel in it, after removing 20 litres of the stuff from the bilge the smell is a lot less and slowly going, getting rid of the ballast and wood that was soaked in diesel made a huge difference. First thing we do when we get to...

Sink and shelf out, support for the shelf was rotten and crumbled away Wife started painting in the bow berth, looks a lot cleaner even with just the undercoat Tomorrow fit the new worktop sink and gas hob also run the gas line too

That's a nice big hatch, would be easy to lift the engine out of it and put something larger back in it's place.... :D But I would miss the 0.5 litres per hour consumption at cruising speed, 120 litre tank @ 8km/h gives more than a 1500km range with a good reserve. Just planning the trip to...

Water tank rinsed and sterilised, floor laid in the lazarette. Engine mounts arrived, they are about 5mm smaller than the ones that came off, so, need to space them out a bit to raise the engine slightly as the sump would hit a crossmember if using the new ones, grr! Wife has been cleaning the...

With the drive leg being underneath would it then be a saildrive? I have a saildrive on my boat, it is a Volvo Penta S110 powered with a MD7A engine so quite small, there are larger versions both by Volvo Penta and other manufacturers The skeg in front of the saildrive protects the drive and...

Staying overnight on a large container ship, in the morning the crew were doing lifeboat drills and the cox was keeping current on his operator’s certificate. Radioing back to the master suddenly there was a shout from the lifeboat we heard as we watched the walky-talky go splash into the...

I don’t know how I am going to fit all this into the boat….. Mores the point I want my cinema back!