Bruce wrote: > Very tidy work, Roger. As you say, doesn't look a lot, but takes a lot > of time and care to get it just so like that.
It looks like SA and Phoenix are running roughly at the same stage where, as you have remarked in your blog, progress seems slow and yet much is being done. I'm very happy with the quality of Sagar's work but there are only so few of them that it's bound to be slower than Braidbar can produce a boat. > Oh, and presumably you hope not to have to go into the mud box too > soon after pumping the black tank overboard? I hope I don't have to go into the mud box at all but I suspect I shall need to clean the filters fairly regularly especially on the Nivernais where I'm based as it has suffered from lack of maintenance and dredging for some time and the bottom is too near the top. The duplicated filter system means that you can close off one of the big valves and clean one filter while leaving the engine running, in an emergency, and then repeat the process, if necessary, on the other filter. I've never had a raw water cooled engine before so it is going to be a learning process re the frequency of cleaning. P's draft is about 850mm and, from memory, the absolute max on the Nivernais is about 1200mm and it would be sludgy going at that draft. You learn not to think too much about what is in the water but the cappuccino sludge that builds up ahead of your bow while moored, bow into current, in the River Yonne at Auxerre gives an indication ;-))) Roger
