After a peaceful night on board, we awoke this morning to a gentle pitter patter on the cabin roof, which soon subsided by the time breakfast was eaten, and the boat was checked ready to rock n'roll.  

I had pressure washed her the night before, and the results were really impressive, mainly on the grippy sections along the gunwhales and roof, but all over too!  

The bilges were nice and dry, so my recent engine water leak was fixed by the new gasket from Sheridan (Rear exhaust elbow, so a ten minute job!) and the only fault found was a duff wiper blade.    

We did a hard-a-port out of Bray, so headed upstream, and within a few minutes, the Sun was peeking out, and our sunroof slid fully open. This was a result, as the forecast wasn't so kind, but after a two week break, we really wanted to get back on the River, and this was brilliant!

Not in a hurry, we nosed up towards Boulters at a steady 1600rpm, enjoying the greenery and lovely weather, aiming to get to 'The Ferry' at Cookham for some lunch and drinks, and eyeballing Flashheart, in Tailspin II just before the lock, we finally moored up just over 2 hours from Bray, and had a cocktail and Duck!

The trip back was predictably faster, as we were lucky with the locks, although we did wonder what Flash was up to, moored bankside with his curtains drawn....

It's true waht they say, one good day on board makes up for several weeks of poor weather, and reminds you why you do it all

 Hi No Rergrets and all, Funny goings on with curtains drawn a!!! a bit of flashing perhaps???  Glad you enjoyed your trip, we are off on Tuesday after the Bank Holiday Mayhe'm has died down, for another weeks cruising the Norfolk Broads, no locks to worry about though!!!
Back on watch now, so signing off,  over and out
Seadog

There were a few screams, now you mention it...

Flash by name. Flash by nature!!

Treat yer boat like you treat your woman.

Climb inside her, rev her up and get her wet.

Did I just say that

Climb inside her?

Climb?  

Gosh....let's hope Mrs F never gets to read that...

Thats where i'm lucky. There is no Mrs F. Well at the mo anyway  

Not surprising, the way you treat 'em  

Its only what I was told  

Anyway my boats still wet inside. No not from any sordid action but its still weeping around the water pump and its been seen too twice now.