We brought two of our granddaughters down to Serafina with us for a spot of babysitting while their Mun and Dad headed off for a couple of days in Blackpool. Summer, eight months, seemed to enjoy having the whole boat to crawl around on while Hollie, who's four years old, wanted to know all the ins and outs of the boat.
We had great plans for the children but the weather has been quite bad, raining most of the time, this made it quite difficult to entertain two little girls.The girls did come equipped with plenty of indoor activities which did come in handy. We managed to get one reasonably dry afternoon to take the girls to Blists Hill Victorian Town at Telford.
Our daughter and her husband joined us on the boat on Wednesday, it was cozy but we had a great time. We spent the two days they were here sightseeing with the weather slightly improved.
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| Hollie and her dad helping a boat down the Stoke locks. |
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| On the way back up to Scotland after a few days on-board Serafina |
This has been the first time we have had a chance to look over Serafina after eight months lying in Stoke for the winter. Our original plan was to get her ready to cruise by Monday but that target has been missed due to a couple of unforeseen problems, least of all, we didn't know Monday was a Bank Holiday, until too late. The carpenter has installed some new bow lockers, which look great, but need some cushions to finish them off. We can't remember the material we chose, that was done last August but they should look great. I'll post some pics in the next blog. The upholsterer will be open on Tuesday so we plan to be waiting on his doorstep at 9am Tuesday to pick the cushions up. Part of my basic checks included the horn, light and bilge pump. Unfortunately, the bilge pump wasn't working so it was out with the ammeter, which showed it was getting power. I thought a new bilge pump may be in order, thus ensuring further delays, until our cruising partner suggested a tap or two on the side of the pump and off it went. Apparently the freezing winters often temporarily cease up these small electric motors.
On Friday we headed over to Crick Marina to meet up with our cruising partners and also pick-up our tickets for the boat show. It was great to spend a few hours catching up on the last eight months. On Saturday we headed over to the Crick Boat Show. We had a list of items we needed to buy and were hoping to get show prices. In particular, we needed an anchor as we are planning to cruise on a few rivers this year. A day at the show was plenty this year, we made a point of not going into the show boats, it only makes you want to change things in our own boat.
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| Show boats at the Crick Show |
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| Relaxing with a drink at the Crick Boat Show |
The carpenter has finally finished a modified version of the work we requested him to do over the winter. I'll post a few photos soon.
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