oldgit
Well-Known Member
Beginning of summer discovered leaky freshwater tank located in impossible to get at location.New stainless tank ordered and job put off until winter etc.
Saturday morning is ordained to be big day and arrangements made to travel to Rochester to sort installation,need 240v and access to light heat power tools and assorted others bits and pieces.
Up early in morning and for first time in ages "fog".Still no prob, Swale is very little used by commercial traffic at low water and any thing moving has to report to Medway Radio.
Turn on radar+gps +radio for comfort and away we go.first time have used radar in anger and what a useful device it is is.Proceed dead slow with head stuck out of window.Should add here that river here is only 100yds wide at low tide with soft mud on either side and no moorings of any kind anywhere so if contact made with anything it would merely be soft cheap but very gooey.
Half mile into journey,this is easy.
Then radar went off and compass heading seemed def a bit iffy.Gps track told me that I had turned in two perfect circles.Crawl along north bank with head stuck out of window for mile or two listening to vey annoyed assorted wading birds well pissed off with me disturbing their peace.Can tell when too far inshore when engines slow down and of course can confirm with glance at depth sounder.
Have had enough by time Queenborough appears,so moor up and get kettle on.
5 mins later fog gone.Mutter mutter.
Continue on to Rochester, then spend hours lying in impossible positions or order to remove batteries cables pipework finalling cutting old tank in half with grinder to get the b****y thing out.
Ooooh and then dicover new tank would not fit .I had given the wrong dimensions to the fabricators. S**t **** ***!
And here is the weekend weather..
Saturday morning is ordained to be big day and arrangements made to travel to Rochester to sort installation,need 240v and access to light heat power tools and assorted others bits and pieces.
Up early in morning and for first time in ages "fog".Still no prob, Swale is very little used by commercial traffic at low water and any thing moving has to report to Medway Radio.
Turn on radar+gps +radio for comfort and away we go.first time have used radar in anger and what a useful device it is is.Proceed dead slow with head stuck out of window.Should add here that river here is only 100yds wide at low tide with soft mud on either side and no moorings of any kind anywhere so if contact made with anything it would merely be soft cheap but very gooey.
Half mile into journey,this is easy.
Then radar went off and compass heading seemed def a bit iffy.Gps track told me that I had turned in two perfect circles.Crawl along north bank with head stuck out of window for mile or two listening to vey annoyed assorted wading birds well pissed off with me disturbing their peace.Can tell when too far inshore when engines slow down and of course can confirm with glance at depth sounder.
Have had enough by time Queenborough appears,so moor up and get kettle on.
5 mins later fog gone.Mutter mutter.
Continue on to Rochester, then spend hours lying in impossible positions or order to remove batteries cables pipework finalling cutting old tank in half with grinder to get the b****y thing out.
Ooooh and then dicover new tank would not fit .I had given the wrong dimensions to the fabricators. S**t **** ***!
And here is the weekend weather..
