To Loch Aline

Back in Linnhe Marine it is absolutely lovely -  the kind of place where sailors who can make their own boats work properly (like the battery charging issues…) like to be. About 100 beautifully laid moorings with all the right gear on it.
We did the gearbox oil change, the engine oil change, spilled some oil in the bilges at which point the perfectly installed automatic bilge pump pumped some of the oil into the surrounding water. Naturally I did one of those ballet moments with a squeezy bottle of washing up liquid, trying to disperse the rainbow effect and avoid prosecution by the local laird or procurator fiscal. The nice new air filter supplied by boatpartsandspares.co.uk is completely the wrong size. So is the replacement engine anode.




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