After a week of bobbing around one engine we have now rectifiewd the fault, or rather we have taken it to bits, looked at bearings, put it back to geather and seen what happened when we started it. Well it works, for how long who knows but we are back on two engines. We had been due back into port next weekend on the south coast which was going to be nice, I had a hotel booked and Debbie had sorted out baby sitters for the night so that we could both have a bit of a break. Unfortunately due to tidal constraints we could not secure a sailing window and therefore our south coast port was cancelled and we are now going North of the North (Scotland) for the weekend. Although it is nice to get alongside I just wish it had been the south coast so I could have seen Debbie and the little ones. The hotel is now cancelled and we are all feeling a bit down.
Other than our engine issue things remain extremely busy, there just seems no end to the daily drudgery. On the plus side the weeks are flying by and next week I will hit the 1 month mark since joining. If the next few months go by this quickly it will soon be May and I will going home. It will be good to have a summer leave for once espeacially as the little ones are getting bigger.
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