It was really nice waking up and not being in a marina! After breakfast I went back to Braidbar as the problem of the not-getting-very-hot radiator had moved to the saloon. We were clearly chasing an air pocket round the system, but it hadn’t yet made its way to the header tank. Jam came to investigate, and in the end we decided we’d leave the Webasto on while we went to turn around, in the hope the movement of the boat would help shift the air. It was quiet. Nice morning as we departed; I started under electric power, and then once past the Victoria Pitt moorings switched to the diesel engine to give the batteries a charge.
We turned round at the winding hole in front of the entrance to the North Cheshire Cruising Club arm, where Kingley Vale was launched back in April. As we headed back, the batteries (which had been on 85 per cent when we left) got back to 100 per cent, so I switched back to electric.
Back at Braidbar we pulled onto the diesel point at Bailey’s Trading Post to fill the diesel tank, then reversed back round the day boat onto the Braidbar mooring. The Trading Post’s car reader wasn’t working, so we needed to pay by bank transfer instead.
Back on the mooring, Daryl arrived to look at the heating — bleeding some of the radiators and concluding that from the level in the header tank, the air had probably now worked it way out of the system. Jonathan also came along to recalibrate the fuel tank gauge now it was full, having fitted the new sender yesterday. So far, the gauge has been much less erratic than the old one.
We had lunch, then went for a bit of a walk partly to find a post box. Other than that we’ve just been enjoying having a view out of the windows, and appreciating the nice comments about the boat from some of the people walking past.
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