Ship's Stores

This weekend was mainly about checking we were ready to negotiate deals at the London Boat Show, lightly abrading Laurin's coppercoated bottom, and raiding Asda for cheap ships stores.

We made a cardboard template of Rocna 15kg and 20kg anchors to check that they would fit on the front of the boat. The 20kg looked huge and the bill (or tip) of the anchor almost touched the bow. The 15kg anchor had a little more space to spare and is the recommended weight for our boat, I'd just been a bit cautious as our current CQR copy is 20kg. We also made the decision to move from 10mm chain to 8mm so that we could fit more in as 80m of chain seems to be recommended for the parts of the Med we are heading for.

I also measured the distance between the helm and the spot underneath the sprayhood reserved for our new chartplotter.... 2 metres. The plan is to have a look at both 9 and 7 inch Raymarine MFD's at the boatshow and make a final decision.

Finally we made the decision to replace the entire wheel drive of our autopilot as Bru was unsure of how much of the insides were damaged (probably as a result of kids climbing on it.... ooops!). The sum total of the parts plus labour to repair it may well exceed the price of the new assembly so it seemed sensible to replace the whole lot.

On the boat we are rather partial to Heinz tinned ravioli as a quick hot meal on the go. It's also a cheap feed that we can store for a long time, particularly when Asda have it on offer at 50p per tin. Beans and Sausages in a tin are also something that both the adult and younger crew members enjoy occasionally so we stocked up on those too! We did get a few strange looks though!