As you can see, the skies over St Florentin are grey but our resident engineer did his best to turn the air blue when he cleared out yesterday's weeds from the cooling water intake and discovered a Major Problem. One which will entail us turning around and going back to the yard at Migennes. Today my French got a good workout with the mecahnic at this boatyard and whilst he can order the required part for us they don't have the facilities to pull the boat out of the water in order to fit it. Yes you did read that correctly. We are barely on the water but need to come out again ( I was going to say barely afloat but that's tempting fate I feel). Not much of a lift is required, just a foot or so, but it still requires the use of that very expensive crane. Meanwhile resident engineer has made a temporary repair and both he and the French mechanic have assured me that it will hold and we won't sink and I won't drown. Hmm.
On the plus side we have acquired a gangway. One of the boatyard workers came by and offered us one for sale for 50 euros. He assured us it was his to sell as he pocketed the note and made off at speed.
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| St Florentin from the canal aqueduct |
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