For the plumbing nerds.

Some nice things have been delivered.  Most recently, a 22litre twin coil calorifier.  Hopefully this will manage to give me hot water unlike the dreadful, collection of leaky old pipes I currently have

I shall be using the backboiler on the stove and the Alde gas water heater.  I plan to let the system thermo-syphon but might fit a pump if the calorifier fails to heat properly.  This could be switched on for an hour or so to force feed the calorifier until it is up to temperature.  The solar project pumps only use 6w so might be an effective way of doing this.

The side hatch is not attached to the boat.  There is a piece of wood that is bolted to the steel hatch surround which has the hinge screwed to it. This has, over the years, rotted away.  A new one has been cut and painted ready to be fitted next weekend.