Day 6 - No movement

Not the best day.  She was just not for lifting and the pump would not cope.

Basically I went down at 6 this morning and sorted the pump out.  The pipe had blocked at the joint we had put in, with seaweed.  It took half an hour to get it clear which proved that we would not have been able to have done it last night, especially in the dark!

Where the boat is sitting at the moment is one of those places in the harbour that get effected by the tide very easily, by that I mean that the difference between 0.1 and 0.2 on the tide table is equivalent of 4 feet in this harbour. 
Because of this, I could not get down near the hull as there was 3 feet at he stern and about a foot at the bow of water.  Wellies, sadly are not big enough!!

When the boat lifted the other day, she moved about 6 feet in towards the quayside and she is now leaning slightly on the quay.  I think this has caused the planking, where she is touching the quay, to split allowing more water to leak in causing the pump not to be able to cope.

I am at a wee bit of a loss as to how to procede. The pump really has to go back to its owner and I think we actually need a larger diameter pump to be able to cope with what has happened. Gawd knows where I am going to get a pump to be able to deal with this.

Maybe the plus point is that we have a week until the tide starts to make again and that gives me some time to source another pump.

Well, watch this space! A big change to this blog will be taking place over the next couple of days.  Rebuildalittleship.blogspot will become rebuildalittleship.co.uk.  Now that we own the site we can build on that, allowing us to provide links to advertisers, other blogs as well as to let us sell some bits and pieces that are surplus to requirement....oh yeah also have a begging page as well.

No pictures today as there was nothing different to see.

More soon

Aye

Kered