It’s our 25th Wedding Anniversary!

And it started off on a very romantic note when Dave handed me my card and said those silver words, “Happy Anniversary dear, married for 25 years so you’re an old boot too!”

Well to be fair the word “too” refers to the fact that “old boot” is one of my jolly pet names for him. For example, (being as he’s a bit older than me), a popular time to say it is when he has to put his reading glasses on, so he can erm, read. I’ll return the compliment tonight whilst perusing the menu when we go for a meal. Oh the romance, it’s too much!

But so far, today hasn’t lived up to “silver” expectations. Besides being our special anniversary, it’s also been “bow thruster resurrection day.” However, you know when you get that secret feeling that something isn’t going to work? (TT’s fault), well I did.

Ian, our already proven true genius magicIAN electricIAN came to refit the solenoid & motor, which has been running fine for him on a bench test.

But on here it doesn’t, even for him. We should’ve told him it wouldn’t be eezy on this boat.

The original problem:

There’s a “click” noise at the bow when you press left or right on the control panel at the stern, nothing happens & that’s as far is it goes,, or doesn’t as the case may be.

The original diagnosis:

• There’s still a hole in the insulation which had to be dug through to fit the important bits when the BT was fitted in March 2010.
• Because of that, condensation has built up on some of the connectors on the solenoid & they’ve turned to goo. (So Dave’s going to plug the gap when it’s been sorted).
• The cables that run through the boat are fine, (else there’d be no “click”), the batteries are fine. And everything else was checked & double checked by Ian while he was here – all ok. 

So he took the solenoid & the motor away, turned out he could replace the connectors & save us a lot of dosh. The successful bench test afterwards worked & proved the case.

Today:

Refitted & ready to go? No,, still just the “click” for left & right. {Humph.} We’re all up for the challenge & Ian, who’s baffled, is going to contact Vetus. By rights EVERYTHING should be working correctly, he knows these bow thruster’s inside out. But with our luck, what do you think?

Such is life & all that. We’re immune to TT’s tantrums now, so it’s not a big problem! But it’ll be interesting to find out what.

Right, that’s it, got to go & iron me best frock & hat with netting on – strange that, I don’t do ironing & I don’t do hat’s…

Coming up tomorrow: Dave the chimley sweep & another problem…………