Please note – I’ve yet to add photos to this post! We did a lot of small improvements on Jac once we got her back to Aylesbury Basin, and only managed one short trip out early in the year – moving her to Berkhamsted and back to use as a Floating Hotel when we had […]
The Big 2023 Trip – The Thames and the Wey Read More »
Wednesday 31st August 2022 We had been planning to set off a little sooner, but various things delayed us – including a trip to Cambridge for Fiona to sing with her choir at a number of venues. The River Cam and the nearby Great Ouse looked inviting as a future destination. Final preparations were completed
Jac’s first long trip – Through London to the Lee and Stort Read More »
Even when we were waiting for Glen to deliver the boat to Gayton, we discussed the need for the boat to be repainted. There were some very rusty looking bits between the waterline and gunwales and the front and side panels have been painted a pale but dirty looking yellow to cover up the Canaltime
Midnight Star’s batteries were shot, to be honest. Despite six hours cruising days on the way from Gayton to Aylesbury, the inverter and fridge kept giving up the ghost if we stayed up too late. There was a new starter battery with it’s own 35 amp alternator, and 4 110aH leisure batteies which were by
Fitting Lithium, and other Electrical improvements Read More »
Midnight Star’s BSS certificate was valid until January 2022, and there was one item that worried me – the state of the Gas Locker. Glen had be honest about it’s condition, saying it would probably need a bit of work, and I’d also been advised that our particular design of boat was prone to trapping
The Boat Safety Scheme Read More »
With Midnight Star safely moored in the Circus Field Basin at Aylesbury, we started on some of the smaller jobs we had in mind and took her down to the end of the Aylsbury Arm a couple of times – I’d adjusted the stern gland, and we wanted to test that. One slightly more pressing
An Autumn test trip Read More »
This journey was to take 2 weekends. The aim was to get Midnight Star to her new mooring at the Circus Field Basin before I started a new block of work on 23rd of August. Friday 13th August 2021 We traveled to Gayton in the evening, put the boat on charge on the landline and
Gayton to Aylesbury Read More »
We had a couple of trips to the boat in the weeks after it arrived – to take our daughter and partner to have a look and a pootle to the nearest winding hole and back, and to do some preparation for out first trip and to start on the Odd Jobs list. Saturday 7th
At 11am on Saturday 17th July 2021 we pulled into the moorer’s car park at Gayton Marina to be greeted by Glenn’s wife Laura. They had filled their large car to the brim with the stuff they needed to take home, but by no means were they stripping to boat of anything needed to stay
The handover and our first trip Read More »
We had mixed feelings about where to moor our new boat. Where we were before at Bugbrooke was in the middle of a long enough pound that you could have a weekend away without operating any locks, although venturing further afield meant to had quite a bit of work to do, either going North or