The leak, and some navigation issues with an iPad.

Once I wrote about a leak, about twenty years ago, in PBO. That leak was resolved one sunny day when sunlight coming in the engine hatch lit up the actual drip of water: it was a copper rove that was a size too small and not riveted over properly. I put a tingle on it. It wasn't a fibreglass boat. Obviously.
This blog bit is about another leak. Last summer I fixed the leak that was spoiling the bedding in the aft cabin, and thanks to the low pressure system that has just hovered by us in Mallaig, giving us two days of solid, leaden rain, we discovered the leak again. Or Alison did. "Oh noo-ooo" she said.
In fact it wasn't actually the leak I'd fixed, but it may have been the same leak only in a different place because I hadn't been savvy enough to really search hard for the leak and had made an assumption about where it was and it all ended with sheets and duvet covers draped around the boat for at least a day.
The rain was torrential, but some Plumber's Mait provided some relief, along with Captain Tolley. Today is Sikaflex day.
Tomorrow, once the minor blow is past, we go to Tobermory.
I have to say that there are a lot of Scots who denigrate the food that Scottish people eat. It isn't true. We've only had one duff meal out, and that was at Euston station.
Navigation: this voyage is navigated using C-Map on a Chinese plotter, which is a bit clumsy to use and doesn't have particularly fine definition, some paper charts particularly for the West Coast, and Imray 'Navigator' on an iPad which uses its own charts. During the passage up the coast to Mallaig, Navigator ceased operating, just insisting that we had another eight hours to cover a distance of 6 miles. We were doing 7 knots over the ground. Basically it had seized up for the time being. The C-Map plotter was correct (we could identify things on the coast which made our position clear), and my iPhone, running the same software, was also correct.
There's a lesson learned: I don't know if Android gadgets do this, but iPads 'hold on' to the apps it has been using, in the background. Eventually the system gets clogged up. Clearing these apps isn't clear, but this morning's learning has been how to do this - switch them all on (need to know how to do that) and then stop them hanging about by 'sweeping' them off the screen.
Navigator charts are good, just as Imray charts have always been. But iPads keep ducking and diving and behave more and more like a special toy - and for that reason they are annoying.
So - if you are a sailor and reading this, say goodbye to Navionics on a laptop - no longer available, hello to really expensive over complex plotters, and also have a look at the Imray Navigator. It will be out for Android tablets soon.
And learn to tolerate iPads.