{"id":6737,"date":"2023-04-05T18:11:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrsphysics.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2025-11-28T07:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:04:20","slug":"boating-well-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/boating-well-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Boating, well boats"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It’s been a long time since we properly had time to spend a decent time on the boat, and it doesn’t look like Easter 2023 will be a boating time: so I’m just going to reminisce about what I’ve been missing and what a poor state Mostly Harmless has got in, after being neglected during lockdown.<\/p>\n

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So we took the stove out.<\/p>\n

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Currently the stove is out of the boat. We were going to repair it, but instead have left it in the capable hands of Graham Patterson at J & W Donaldson Caledonian Place, Church Gate,\u00a0Moffat,\u00a0DG10 9EG I know he’ll get it back to full working order.<\/p>\n\n

We’ve then had some issues with water damage.<\/p>\n

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This is the worst place, but there are plenty of others. We think this is due to a leaking bathroom window, which is now sealed.<\/p>\n

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So far we’ve done most of the back cabin and most of the bathroom. We need to do something more with some of the cupboards which still look a little water stained. We can check this out when we return.<\/p>\n

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We found some amazing stuff which undercoated everything, but it was harsh on the brushes<\/p>\n

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But between all the fixes we had some ready made entertainment, although we were quite concerned the poor animal had gone a bit doolally.<\/p>\n\n

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Unfortunately we now have a widebeam boat right next to us, so no chance of feeding the swans out of the side hatch.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update on the boating situation 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[958],"tags":[1126,944,963,1127,1128,949,1129,1130,1131],"ppma_author":[1267],"class_list":["post-6737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat","tag-boat-updates","tag-boating","tag-mostly-harmless","tag-mute","tag-mute-swan","tag-scottish-canals","tag-stove","tag-tidying","tag-water-damage","vs-blog blog-single wow fadeInUp"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":1267,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"n5","display_name":"Mrs Physics","avatar_url":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/OK-scaled.png","author_category":"","first_name":"Mrs","last_name":"Physics","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}