Heckler
Active member
Go to boat this weekend, sun looking good, sat wake up go for a peramble in the dinghy while mam starts getting the sails out ready for mounting. shout of dismay from her, she has found the bow roller asembly dangling from the spare halyard. a massive alloy casting broken in two. [--word removed--], go to dickies and price a new one, £115 plus the vat plus 3 weeks wait!!! urggh, go and see my mate roy at partingtons, he points me in the direction of a welder, what a superb man he turns out to be, i unbolted the remnants, took them to him and 2 hours later, bobs your uncle and we are back in busines, he asked for £20, i gave him £30 i was that chuffed.
about 4.30 am feeling a bit strange, the doc at the beginning of the week, as part of my six month check up had told me to stop taking atenolol blood pressure tablets because there is new evidence to say that they can lead to type 2 diabetes, anyway starting to feel really strange now, palpitations etc, hmmm. decide to go to the pharmacy and get some atenolol, made it just in time and got me a couple, could hardly make it back across the car park, feeling v light headed. took one and sat in the car, started to feel better, another hour and i was fine, the pharmacist ( a pole) said it is very dangerous to stop taking these suddenly!! hmmm, doctor tomorrow to give him a piece of my mind!!
anyway later on start engine to warm the domestic water and put it in gear, bang, engine stops, the chap next to me on the pile has left a joining line in the water and it has got me, wonderful!
sod it leave it till the morning to sort.
mam goes under what with me feeling crook, the line is wound up good style but she manages to cut it off, however, there is a bit of 10mm halyard poking out of the cutless bearing and we cant shift it. hmm, go to boatyard and arrange liftout for this week and will have to order a new cutlass bearing (its a rubber top hat on a bene) and ge down there to change it.
best part of £250 notes down the swanny, as i said at the top, what a weekend, wish i'd stayed at home!!
about 4.30 am feeling a bit strange, the doc at the beginning of the week, as part of my six month check up had told me to stop taking atenolol blood pressure tablets because there is new evidence to say that they can lead to type 2 diabetes, anyway starting to feel really strange now, palpitations etc, hmmm. decide to go to the pharmacy and get some atenolol, made it just in time and got me a couple, could hardly make it back across the car park, feeling v light headed. took one and sat in the car, started to feel better, another hour and i was fine, the pharmacist ( a pole) said it is very dangerous to stop taking these suddenly!! hmmm, doctor tomorrow to give him a piece of my mind!!
anyway later on start engine to warm the domestic water and put it in gear, bang, engine stops, the chap next to me on the pile has left a joining line in the water and it has got me, wonderful!
sod it leave it till the morning to sort.
mam goes under what with me feeling crook, the line is wound up good style but she manages to cut it off, however, there is a bit of 10mm halyard poking out of the cutless bearing and we cant shift it. hmm, go to boatyard and arrange liftout for this week and will have to order a new cutlass bearing (its a rubber top hat on a bene) and ge down there to change it.
best part of £250 notes down the swanny, as i said at the top, what a weekend, wish i'd stayed at home!!
