Whitby, fri 9th june

  Yee! Ha! Had another monumental sleep, must have been 12 hours, great mugs of tea and toast at the kabin cafe. Into town, got a replacement tarp, exactly like the one I set out with  before the FIRE!

  There's a good chandlers here, bought a stirrup pump for easy bilge emptying, and some really useful looking clips which are for hanking a jib onto 4mm line. I've got 4mm line around the perimeter of my boat so hope to use these clips to secure new tarptent

Today's weather has bin generally sunny with a bit of showers at midday.

All my appliances are charged up and battery is close to full. Today has been epoxy day,
1 the ply at the corner of front hatch had delaminated,
2 there was a chip out of the stern hatch top,
3 where I had cut the floorboards in two one had  a chunk broken
3a Also, when parking up yesterday, i had a minor collision with a neighbour. Saw him today and he was very happy for me to patch up the cracked rubbing strake. Thanks fellow boatie :-) i let them know that i were insured.

  Trouble is, tied up in a marina on a sunny day you bump into loads of boatie people and have happy boatie conversations, not conducive to being productive.  Shared a beer with Paul and Dan who i'd met previous in Bridlington. Also yesterday met a geezer who had been labouring through the southerlies going clockwise round in a 22 footer

  Still, epoxy waits for no man.

  I've  now removed the electrical tape (spawn of the devil) that i'd put over the top of the transom, this was keeping some screwholes dry which were from where i 've removed the traveller rail. They are now filled in with twelve, hand carved, 4mm, hardwood pegs. I made the replacement chunk of floorboard out of hardwood too.

  So that was my day done. Finally had some chips  (and curry sauce) after all these seaside resorts, downed some beers and un bouteille de vin rouge

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  It's pleasant and tranquil here this evening