Our Poole stay was planned to cover the bank holiday period. Also to enable Izzy the goddog to enjoy the beach and parks here. Guess what, she managed both:
Especially the protecting her stone in the water thing:
As for the human crew, we managed some shopping, an afternoon and evening with Richard and Kim on board (you've met them before, just not in 2022) catching up on life. To keep the doglet happy we also managed some walks. On the one dry day of the bank holiday, Poole quay had a load of little traction engines running up and down with that wonderful evocative smell of a steam engine:
Sorry that the photos don't give you the full effect.
Our sociable time continued with a visit from Simon and Amanda, the Dartmouth dayboat hire folks. They had been looking at a yacht they might buy in Lymington and we had great pleasure in helping them decide to spend some money. Always easier when it is not your own somehow.
Maintenance news:
That annoying seized on wiper arm still refuses to budge nicely despite the best efforts of gentle persuasion, penetrating oil, heat and a bit of plan X (plan X = brute force and ignorance, a well known solution to many issues). Looks like we will need to cut open the cap to expose the shaft of the motor and then use a puller on it. Annoyingly all of our pullers are too big for the task so we might invest in a special small one designed for the job. It always seems that the smaller and what should be simpler jobs burn many hours and take a huge amount of elapsed time.
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