Wednesday, July 7

Bo and I took Emily to catch the noon train back to London then headed back to the boat. It was unbelievably hot! I cannot remember having such a long stretch of hot weather. The anchorage we were in had no wind at all so we weighed anchor and headed east to Scarborough. I contacted Mike Macdonald from The Rigging Shoppe (in Scarborough) and he offered to deliver two new heads (toilets) to Cathedral Bluffs Marina which was just a couple of kilometers away from their store. I have decided to install new heads because the current ones are the original installation from when the boat was first built. They worked OK but were complicated to flush, allowed smells to come back from the holding tanks and they used a lot of water compared to the newer models.

While we were en route to the marina the cold water feed hose blew off the hot water tank and the entire water supply drained in to the bilge. The hot water tank is inside a bench locker in the galley and with all the engine noise we did not notice the problem until Bo went to get some water and nothing came out of the tap! Fortunately there was no damage and we were able to make repairs at our destination. We arrived at the Marina just as Spain won the Fifa World Cup against Germany.