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No daily log this week - not a proper cruising week - end of season is upon us, and we've got to go home soonest to tidy up "proper living" etc. ( what a waste of time, sob sob)
We wandered down the Soane as last week, thoroughly enjoying perfect cruising weather - wall to wall sunshine every day, stopping off for night's sleep at a single boat jetty between Gray and Montache, and then down to "Nut-Hatch pontoon" - see last year's log - a single boat pontoon sort of lost in the forest at pk 260 just above Heuilley sur Saone.
There we tore out the kitchen window complete, found even more rust between frame and boat hull than we expected, but admitted we deserved it, as we have been prevaricating on this job for 2 years.. However, job went well - window came out quickly, ground off rust from steel boat hull, cleaned it all up (we have an 240 volt electric angle grinder/wire brush running off the invertor, off boat batteries) Owatroled it, rubber seal in place, and pulled window back into place and hard down on said seal, filled and painted external surround, all before going to bed!
Next morning went upstream 500 metres to our other favourite tidy boat up at end of season jetty, There re-checked window, and painted - once again - sides and rubbing strakes, cleaned boat up and generally sorted things out.
Were going to take another 3 days to St J de L, but both of us rather stupidly started getting "poorly" - different "poorlies" each - so we made a run for St J de L and arrived Friday evening, having mostly recovered from our "poorlies", and moved onto CBL moorings as last year.
Now, having collected our car from it's summer hibernation, we "winterise" Albert and visit other boaters, arriving here with similar programmes, all telling each other tall stories of the near disasters they and we have "skillfully" survived during the summer.
On Thursday this week we light out up the péage for the le Havre - Portsmouth Ferry, the Isle of Wight Ferry, and home on Friday evening. (D.V.)
Oh dear - it's all over for another year!
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