When I purchased Forty Two it was fitted with a casssette toilet. The toilet backed on to the galley wall and on the other side of the wall was a cupboard sized space that housed a wine rack. The cassette was removed from the toilet in this cupboard space. I soon replaced the cassette toilet with a porta pottie, partly because I didn't like the cassette toilet and partly because one of the cassettes leaked when fitting and removing it, not hygenic.
I've been promising myself I would move the washing machine for a while now and the ideal place for it is in the cupboard space where the wine rach used to be. When I tried it in the new location I found that the space is about a quarter of an inch too narrow so I will have to find a way of making the cupboard space a tiny bit wider.
Having given it some considerable thought I dismantled the offending cupboard and rebuilt it an inch narrower so as to give the washing machine enough space to fit in to the hew location. At the same time i built a new cupboard with drawer over to fit the space that the washing machine had vacated.
Although Kilby Lock had been refurbished this winter there must ahve been a minor glitch with it as we had to wait a while for CRT to open the lock after some remedial wroks.
New cupboard with drawer over.
Nice secure moorings right in the middle of Leicester with pleasant gardens all round but still with easy access to the center of Leicester including the largest covered market place in Europe and at nearly 800 years old one of the oldest as well.
Water pump playing up so got a new one. Got the boat yard to drill a hole for the outflow for the washing machine in it's new location. Re positioned the water pump under the kitchen sink instead of under my No. 2's bed.
Topped up with diesel. The fuel pump is on a working boat hull moored on the opposite side of the canal to the tow path and in the flow of the weir outlet making access a bit of a trial but we mamaged it without mishap.
Nice cruise into Loughborough in the sunshine. We seem to have had a good year so far for weather although it is still only April.
We had planned for a day out on the Great Central Railway which is the only main line heritage railway running from Loughborough to Leicester, which would have been enough excitement for the day but when we got to Quorn and Woodhouse there was a steam rally complete with fairground carousels.
We just had to stop of and have a go on the roundabout, record the fairground organ and just drink in the atmosphere. Ever since we bumped in to Carel's youngest at Cheddleton I expect to see him at every steam function but not this time.
Tried out the 1940's tea room and the NAAFI (actually the Navy Army Air Force Institutes) but normally recognised as a place to eat.
The range of full size and model steam engines of all shapes and designs was a wonder to behold, I have never seen so many all together at the same place before.
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Nice cruise into Loughborough in the sunshine. We seem to have had a good year so far for weather although it is still only April.