Aft hold holes, and gas fire from eBay ..

Myrtle's missus has managed to get a nice 'living coals' gas fire from eBay.

We have cleared out the items we have no need of from the aft hold and found three holes in its floor above water level. I knew there was one, but some of the plates are very dicey.  So Myrtle's missus (Mm) will need to think of the best way of making that area safe and usable. Photos later ..

Full moon

The moon rises over the far end of Shoreham from where Myrtle is moored, and was beautiful yesterday and today ..

and today ..

and this one ..

Not so mute swans?

Two swans came after the tide had receded enough to expose the vegetation, and they started to pick pieces of vegetation and throw them to the side. The funny thing was that one flung them to the spot where the other one was picking them up from!  Another swan came too, and one of the original ones raised its wings and neck a but and made a strange breathy hooting sound ..

Visitors in a boat ..

This lovely little boat hove into sight, and turned out to be a visitor and his sons ..

then raised its sails and went home again ..

It looks very Swallows and Amazons does't it? ..

Movement reference markers ...

I would like to swing Myrtle around so that her main window faces out into the water rather than into the side of the neighbour's boat.  I spent sometime juggling with the mooring ropes this morning at high. I have taken two photos so that I can record any swing as it occurs ..

In this one I have lined up the pole at the front of the boat just to the right of the central structure, to see what it lines up with on the neighbouring boat.

I also took this photo ..

Here I have sighted along the side of the boat .. at the moment it lines up with the corner of the neighbouring boat.