Working on Robinetta, Day 7

First job of the day was going into Ullapool for a cooked breakfast. We had a leisurely one at The Bothy, before heading back to Robinetta, where we got the anchor and its chain back on board.

Julian spent the rest of the morning sorting out the stern light and tiller pilot power sockets in the cockpit, then after lunch he refashioned the bulkhead mounting that originally held the Seafarer depth gauge. Last season this held a 12v car socket, together with 4 USB charging sockets, and a voltmeter for the batteries. This has now been replaced with a much smaller installation, that does not have the 12V car socket which we never used. This required Julian to cover the hole in the mounting, but luckily there were plenty of bits of spare wood lying around. The navigation lights were also reconnected.

In comparison I did not feel like I did much. Lots of miscellaneous tidying up, getting the blocks sorted out to go on the horse, and setting up the bowsprit. In the course of doing this I realised that the hole in the bulwarks that Tim had mended fouled the bowsprit as it went through, making it very difficult to bring in. I need to ask him to free this up tomorrow when he gets back from holiday. The wind got up a bit late afternoon, so I closed the shed doors to stop them banging.

Julian and I decided to go to film night held at the ferry terminal in the evening. We miscalculated the timing, arriving before the venue opened, so went to the Ferry Inn and had a pleasant light meal of a starter portion of mussels each, with a single portion of chips. We shared a table with an Australian couple on a car tour of Scotland and had a pleasant conversation about good places to visit, before we headed over to see the film.

Climbing the ladder in the shed to get into Robinetta’s cabin when we got back in the dark is something I will be glad not to have to do again, but not really a problem.