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| New Spotlights aboard, handy for winter nights! |
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| Ominous Clouds! Low temperatures and significant amounts of snow, the next shower was on the horizon! |
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| A Heron visits the marina! |
Before we could consider taking the boat on a longer journey we needed to remove some of the growth that had appeared over the 6 months she has been afloat. Whilst there might be a possibility of someone locally lifting her out of the water we decided to take her to shallow waters to scrub her down ourselves.
Monday morning we decided to head out to find a suitable beach but we got no further than a clicking starter motor, with new fully charged battery aboard, we had to investigate what other could be causing the problem. Joking to each other we thought there was no way this could be down to an earthing problem again, 18months after the first incident! However with the lend of some jump leads from the Shop and Garage owner we discovered it was indeed a bad earth! We had the garage make up two new earth leads for us and fitted them on Tuesday. With the forecast looking perfect for beaching on Wednesday we headed out and found a shallow and sheltered beach on Yell, although quite stoney it was shallow enough to walk round her without having to fully beach her. Anchoring in the still calm we jumped overboard in our drysuits and could push her round whilst scrubbing her.
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| Stopping to watch a pod play around Quickstep on our journey back to Unst |
With a clean bottom (!) we took the opportunity to run the auxiliary outboards as we headed back to Unst, stopping for a few minutes drifting as a pod of possible 6+ played around the boat, before disappearing to deeper water.
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Our route, shown by our AIS
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| Muckle Flugga Lighthouse |
Today with the wind on the increase we went for a more land based exploration, walking through the Hermaness Nature Reserve to the Muckle Flugga view point, through the icy/snowy paths.
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