TRANQUILITY IS A SELF MANAGED SHARE BOAT

At 58 feet length, TQ (as we call her) is a steel hull narrow boat built by Colecraft and fitted out by Elton Moss Boatbuilders. Currently based at Aqueduct Marina in Cheshire we're able to cruise some of the most popular waterways in Britain. The Shropshire Union, The Trent and Mersey, The Llangollen Canal, The Four Counties Ring and Cheshire Ring and more.

Our friendly Syndicate decided to go down the Self Management route on 1st March 2012 and so far it has been very successful. Please visit the other pages in this blog to see the new Web Site and if shares are available for sale. (There'll not be many).


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Wednesday 9 May 2018

I've done most of the work required by the BSS.

I've cut the hole in the mat to reveal the fuel cock sign, moved the isolator sign, tightened the battery terminal, fitted a new plug and socket to the shore line, and cut and fitted a new gauze in the fuel tank breather. I had to sacrifice the ship's sieve for that one.

I saw the tank breathers they had in the chandlery, and they looked a bit too big and sophisticated for our need, and I didn't ask the price, but I suspect there were too many zeros on the end.

This came in handy 😆
The only jobs remaining are the battery links and battery clamp.

The other job which was bothering me was the leak in the water tank overflow tube. I've made a temporary bodge repair with some CT1. Hopefully it'll last until Winter maintenance when we can get a permanent bodge repair done. TQ will need to come out of the water for that so we might as well get the blacking done at the same time.

The whole area needs some rebuilding. The bow thruster battery probably caused some of the rot.

Rotted through!

CT1 applied. Don't worry it's food safe.
We've move out of the marina today to a lovely peaceful spot.

Silence... apart from the birds - bliss.

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