Yes we are back and hopefully many interesting and opinionated posts. There still are ' Net curtains' and 'Old Ladies and Ducks' to be discussed, more of that later. Surely stern glands and rope wrapped propellers are much more interesting? We should put it to the vote. (If anyone is out there as the silence is deafening). Moving on we have had a problem with discarded rope. Twice recently this has caused huge navigation problems as a result of picking up rope. This has caused the 'Stern Gland' (you need to look at previous blog comment to laugh at the 'lost in translation' aspect of a 'stern gland') to be bound, vibrated and sucked dry when all the time all it needed is a little lubrication from the waters of the canal.
As I don't have a picture of myself pulling out rope the next best thing will do, it's a guy looking pissed off in the Somme on a bad T shirt day. Sculpture much modified by weekly changes of clothes provided by the youth of Amiens, originally by Stephan Balkenhol entitled 'L'Homme sur sa bouée'
Bad T Shirt Day (Great restaurants behind)
It looks like I will be definitely going swimming tomorrow to extract more rope from the propeller and the stern gland!
Next Day. Lovely day for a swim, actually standing on our submerged gangplank as the water was 3+ metres deep.
This is it!! The bastard!!
1 comment:
So lets disturb the silence out there.
Just hope that you don't get more junk in your propeller when winter and the cold comes.
And great that you took on Jim's comment about photos showing you and Margaret. 2 new posts and we already have photos with both of you.
:-)
But T-Shirt Man looks fun (well not really – more depressed) as well.
Keep up the blogging – we are all reading it.
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