Ah well, it's a UK public holiday on Monday at the end of our Summer and the weather has played it's usual tricks; gales, rain and cold forecasted except in the South East/ London area. Much like the rest of the Summer of 2009, on the weekends when we could go down to the boat. So we have come home. I thought 2007 was bad (25 engine hours). I thought 2008 was worse ( 7 engine hours and about 10 trips out). It surely couldn't get any worse in 2009 I thought, especially as the long range forecast for the Summer was for warm sunny weather; wrong ! Yippee, this year so far we have run the engine for 8 engine hours, more than last year but only had 4 trips out! The last one was on Monday; OK when we went out, but after 30 minutes 25+ mph winds and waves breaking over the bow, the rest of the week the winds were 30 mph or more. We might get one or two good days in September, but I'm finding it difficult to justify keeping the boat/ paying marina fees etc. I don't spend much on fuel, but that's not the point !
Graham
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