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WAVEDANCER about to start her journey to a mooring at RCC.
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The way out,fortunately no wind and use of BT is Verboten on The Merdeway of course.
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Been ashore since leaving Thames just about everything that could sieze up had,mainly due to boat laying idle for years,usual story of reluctance to sell a boat that was never going to be used.Nice boat and in the end at the right money. :)
 
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Its not always as wide as this, it does get narrow in some places. :)
Bit of a jump for new owner, from a small peche promenade to this beauty simply because he called in a marina during his annual Thames holiday .
On journey back from Medway Bridge Marina spotted Murv on "Loopy Lou" on his way back from fuel berth.
Our mooring master has been actively rejigging the moorings in order to reduce the number of boats waiting for a club mooring.
With around 100 boats on site it does take some doing.
 
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Sheesh, any excuse to take the helm of a T36... Just give in and get one, you know you want to :D


Incidentally, that refueling gave me my "tank to tank" average fuel consumption figure over the Year at 8.84/1.95 gallons per hour.
I seriously didn't expect good fuel economy to feature on the huge list of plus points about these boats, but it seemingly does!!
 
Its always useful to get a log going as soon as you get a new boat.
It makes you wonder why more boaters do not bother.
Not only can you turn the pages to find out exactly how long that trip from Rochester to
Ramsgate/WID/St Kats or Richmond Lock actually took but just how much fuel you used in real life.
The last thing you need is being moored at Teddington before that 4am trip back in the pitch black, wondering if you have enough fuel to get back and with decent reserve.
Quick look at log and you can forget fuel and start being concerned about arriving at the barrier/not upsetting the rowers and getting under the bridge without hanging around.
After that its merely worrying about that forecast of wind against tide that the weather gods were saving for your return.:)

WaveDancer has really neat hatch cut into the floor immediately in front of the bed to check water ingress from stern tubes/rudder stocks etc,seem to recall in earlier boats you had to remove blimming mattress and bedding, then take out huge wooden pad to check aft bilge ?
 
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We've built up some useful data over the Year, departure/arrival time in relation to hours +/- hw, depth under the props and clearance under Aylesford bridge on the Maidstone run as well as the tide height. I need to go back and put in the tidal range to make it really useful for all future trips.

I think that hatch in wavedancer is an owner modification, I'd not seen it in any of the other boats we looked at.
Ours has a very small hatch under one of the drawers in the aft cabin to access the port side stern tube; rudder stocks and bilge are from the stbd side bedside unit and aft bilge can be checked from either side using one of the various "T36 yoga poses" that I've had to learn over the Year.
Removing the mattress and the wooden board gives you access to the steering ram, water tank and pump and by carefully laying it all down on top of the unseen tools that you needed for the job you lifted it all for in the first place, you get to spend a very frustrating hour hunting for it (usually the crimping tool in my case)
 
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WaveDancer has the most enourmous POO tank under the back bed it has ever been my privilege to witness. :)
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You didn't pay much attention to my Stevens then Fred, it was the full width of the boat under the bathing platform. I was never allowed to, but I reckon I could have gone the whole season with just one pump-out!
 
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I wonder where on earth his water tank is then? I do hope it's not a huge plumbing faux-pas!!
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Actually it may have been a white tank..so possibly potable water !





"I reckon I could have gone the whole season with just one pump-out!" H,mmm :)
 
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