We have never kept a formal log. I initially used to make trip notes on my phone, but that didn’t last long.
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This is the log of the starship chestnut………
Engine hours at purchase: 32
Sun 25 Mar 2012
Took boat quick trip up to the winding hole west of Aqueduct marina.
finished hours 34
Mon 26 mar
dipped fuel rod before setting out 100 litres
Moored at King’s Lock Chandlery. Bought a mobile fender and roof hook, a spare cassette for the Thetford toilet.
Should have bought another centre line. Will do at another place.
Moored up just south of bridge 158 opposite paddy’s wood.
engine hours: 39.2
Tue 27 mar
took on water at wheelock and dumped elsan.
Moored at Church Lawton above bridge 136
very quiet place with view over mow cop, lots of joggers!
engine hours: 45.5
Wed 28 mar
took on water at Red Bull yard. Dumped trash, emptied elsan despite no light.
Dipped fuel rod at red bull. 75 ltrs at 46.9hrs. (so 12.9 hrs for 25ltrs = 1.937 lt/hr)
did harecastle in 25 mins (about according to tunnel keeper)
stopped at Westport lake for cup of tea. Stayed overnight..
engine hours:48.7
Thu 29 Mar
started off at 09:00.
moored outside longport marina while Sue went to Sainsburys.
moored down from star lock in Stone for overnight.
engine hours: 54.9
fuel dipped at 60 ltrs (so 54.9-46.9 / 75-60 = 8/15=1.875lt/hr)
Fri 30 mar
Arrived Aston Marina.
Could not get stern first into mooring, wind too high.
Sat 7 Apr
Took boat to Moat House at Acton Trussel for the Family gathering.
Moored over night.
Sun 8 Apr
Return to Aston.
Sat 21 Apr
Engine hours at Start 68.1
Sue took boat out of Marina following her RYA course yesterday.
Went South towards Great Hayward, turned at hole just north of Bridge 78
Had dinner in Aston restaurant..excellent.
Mon 21 May
engine 72.8
day trip with Mom and Don
back at 77.1 hrs
Sun 24 June
trip to star pub in stone
wound at hole before pub
back at 79.0
Fri 29 Jun The Avon ring (failed at Stratford)
prepared boat for river run
slept over
Sat 30 Jun
start at 79 hrs fuel 110 ltrs (so took on fuel somewhere)
set out around 12
moored 19:30 just east of brdg 59
engine 84.8
Sun 1 Jul
finish at 89.9
moored just north of Hopwas school bridge
Mon 2 July
fuel: 87.5 ltrs
stopped just south of cudworth top lock
2 miles from castle vale
engine: 94.5
Tue 3 July
start fuel 80 ltrs
prop fouled by old mattress
lucky to cut it off: need small pair bolt cutters
moored in gas street basin BW sign saying 24hrs
engine: 100.7
thur 5 July
start fuel 67 ltrs (so 110-67 / 100.7-79=43/21.7= 1.98 lt/hr)
finish hours 106.1
Fri 6 July
no start fuel (raining)
rained all day heavily
finally moored up at fleur-de-lys pub
in lowesenford
engine hours finish: 111.1
sat 7 july
start fuel 45 ltrs (so 67-45/111.1-100.7=22/10.4=2.115lt/hr)
stop at 116hrs
sun 8 July
ran engine to move boat to elsan point
stopped at 117.6
fuel now:
Mon 9 July
Moved down to Bancroft basin
hours 118.7
fuel:85 So took on about 55ltrs fuel somewhere
Tue 10 July
ran engine for hot water and electric
start 08:55
stop 09:55
engine hrs:119.7
Wed 11 July
engine: 120.2 on start
charge battery initially
then off back up the stratford
start off at 121.0
Thur 12 July
engine start 125.2
stopped opposite anglo-welsh in wooten wawen
visited church (oldest in warks)
eat in Navigation, Ruddles County on tap.
Fri 13 July
Sat 14th July
moored at curdworth
engine: 141.4
fuel: 40 (so 141.4-118.7/85-40=22.7/45=1.982lt/hr
Sun 14 July
woken up by bloke hammering on the boat
says we are moored on a fishing spot and its not allowed
Walked along the bank, no signs anywhere,
but arriving fisherman say the spot belongs to the Stirrup Cup pub, now run by a Mr Clark?
Fishing started at 09:20
moored up at 17:00
engine:145.9
fuel:35
Mon 15 July
worked as far as fradley junction
rained all day, had to stop
engine: 148.9
fuel: 30 lts (so10/148.9-141.4=10/7.5=1.333lt/hr
the webasto stopped working
assume fuel level now below intake
Tues 16 July
reached Aston without problem
put 15 ltrs into gerry can but not needed
engine: 156.9
fuel: 12.5 and still running
oil pressure sender still faulty
fitted fuel sender. Tank below drain plug level,
but engine still starting!!
Put most of gerry can into tank,
daytrip with Lorraine and Jackie.
End of July
Sun 10Aug
day trip with Verna and Brian
engine @ start: 162.1
Thurs Sep 6th
day trip with Salima and Paul
engine hours at finish 170.3
added 20ltrs fuel
Tues 2nd Oct
start of Caldon trip
engine: 170.2
fully filled fuel tank (173 ltrs) and calibrated
gauge. Filled water tank
Wed 3rd Oct
2nd day of caldon trip
engine finish: 179.1
Fri 5th Oct
on Churnet river top of Caldon
engine at start: 183.9
Sat 6th Oct
heading for Leek
enginestart 188.4
tues 9th Oct
finish of Caldon trip
start engine: 200.9
finish engine:204.3
Wed 10th Oct
topped up elec meter, now £11.30
Sun 30 Dec
brief visit to check boat
plastic sheet over front doors still OK
engine starts (very smokey) but no hours on meter?
Electric meter showing £9.21
Frost-stat not working: fires up OK with flame on Webasto control. But once thermostat shuts the unit down the Webasto controller drops to OFF (as if I’d pressed the flame button again). So if the thermostat drops below the set temp a second time there is no power from the controller.
Sart 19th Jan 2013
brief visit to boat 4 inch of snow everywhere
all the mushroom vents are dripping and all the window frames have condensation. Need some small plastic buckets to go over mushrooms on roof.
£8.77 on electric meter
webasto controller showing OFF again
min temp showing as minus 3 inside boat and max/min thermo is reading 2 degrees higher than the froststat, but no visible leaks from water still in hot tank.
turned on webasto again – it started straight up
thermostat reading 0.1 degrees
voltmeter on webasto timer input line shows 11v
waited for stat to get to 5 deg and turn off
webasto goes off, feed to timer drops to 0v and timer powers down!!!! The manual flame button still works
have disconnected this input
wait for boat to cool down. At 4.6 deg system cut back in again then off at 4.9, then on again at 4.6
so cutting wire makes system work.
Need to confirm this with Webasto
Mon 28th Jan
Elec meter £8.66
Webasto has turned off again. must have a timer on it. Will bypass it, put a diode in the 12v feed to look like the timer.
Recess for towel rad 60w x 77h
shower taps stick out 8cm
Sat/Sun 2/3 Feb
wired the voltmeter to both batteries via the inverter. So Inverter should also charge the starter battery @ 2 amps.
fri 15th feb 2013
installed barometer
elec £8.22
buried thermostat under port gunnel
fri 29th Mar
brief visit to measure stuff
electric: £7.12
Sat 3rd May 2013
Start of Peak Forest trip
206.0 hrs
Sun 4th May
209.1 hrs
wed 8th May
220.0 hrs
Thur 9th May
224.1 hrs
Sat 11th May
229.0 hrs
wound at Macclesfield to head north
arrived bugsworth
Sun 12th May
headed back home
Mon 13th May
240.8 hrs
waited at and ran a trip to Macc and back for Virna and Brian
Tues 14th May
247.0 hrs
go home
The log from 247.0 hours to 659 hours is missing
Chestnut Log
Avon/Severn ring April 2016
19/4/16. 659.1 at start
20/4/16. 662.5 so 3.4
21/4/16. 667.4 at finish so 2.5
23/4/16. 671.3 at start. So 3.9
25/4/16. 673.5 at start. So 3.2
26/4/16. 681.0 at start. So 7.5
27/4/16. 684.8 at start. So 3.8
28/4/16. 688.8 at start. So 4.0
29/4/16. 692.8 at start. So 4.0
30/4/16. 696.4 at start. So 3.6
1/5/16. 702.6 at start. So 6.2
2/5/16. 709.4 at start. So 6.8
3/5/16. 713.6 at start. So 4.2
4/5/16. 719.7 at start. So 6.1
5/5/16. 725.5 at start. So 5.8
6/5/16. 728.1 at finish. So 2.6
York ring (as far as Lincoln)
23/9/16 14:15 733.0 18:30 4:25 3.9
24/9/16 08:30 736.9 18:00 9.5 3.1
25/9/16 09:00 740.? 15:30 6.5 6.3
26/9/16 10:35 746.3 16:30 6.0 4.9
27/9/16 08:45 751.2 Xx:xx
28/9/16 754.6
29/9/16 760.6
30/9/16 763.8
1/10/16 768.2 Saxilby
2/10/16 770.0 Lincoln
3/10/16. Still in Lincoln
5/10/16 772.5 leave Lincoln
6/10/16 779.1 leave Gainsborough
7/10/16 784.6 leave thorne
8/10/16 792.0 leave Heck
9/10/16 796.6 leave lemonroyd 8lm
10/10/16 800.1 leave Leeds 9lm
11/10/16 802.7 leave woodlesford 41lm
12/10/16 812.4 leave Mirfield 36lm
13/10/16 822.0 leave Ramsden
14/10/16 830.0 through tunnel
15/10/16 834.8 leave Uppermill
16/10/16 840.5 leave Stalybridge
17/10/16 844.4 leave Romily
18/10/16 848.7 leave high lane
19/10/16 853.6 leave macclesfield
20/10/16 858.7 leave Rising Sun
21/10/16 864.8 leave Wedgewood
Droitwich ring
4/5/17. 869.1 leave marina
5/5/17. 874.2. Leave B98 S&W
6/5/17. 878.6 leave lock 33
7/5/17. 883.2. Leave B56
8/5/17. 887.0. Leave below B38
9/5/17. 890.0 leave kinver moorings
10/5/17 894.2 leave bridge 9
11/5/17 899.0 leave lineacre bridge
12/5/17 901.5 stay in Droitwich basin
13/5/17 902.4 leave Droitwich
14/5/17 909.9 stay Worcester
15/5/17 911.9 leave Diglis moorings
16/5/17 918.7 leave Astwood
19/5/17 929.5 leave Edgbaston
21/5/17 941.6 leave hopwas
22/5/17 946.1 leave north br 55
23/5/17 951.0 leave br 78
Home
Shugborough
28/8/17 953.5 leave Aston
29/8/17 953.5 leave tixall wide
12/5/18 966.6 shakedown
13/5/18 968.0 return with battery issues
2018 nick trip
14/7/18 970.0
16/7/18 975.1 leave shugborough
17/7/18 982.0 leave Fradley
18/7/18 987.7 leave curdworth bottom
19/7/18 993.7 leave fradley
engine failure
20/7/18 limped home with no console
2019 Leicester ring
start 996.4
6/5/19 999.9 arrive wolesley bridge
7/5/19 1000.7 start from wolesley???
9/5/19 1012.6 start above atherstone
10/5/19 1016.5 left Atherstone
11/5/19 1022.0 left hungerfield
12/5/19 1028.0 engine start @ Brnstn
13/5/19 1030.0 leave Brnstn
14/5/19 1035.2 leave ?????
16/5/19 1046.6 leave harborough arm
17/5/19 1053.8 leave kilby
19/5/19 ?????? Leave Leicester
23/5/19 ?????? Arrive Aston @ 17:00
No readings as odometer broke
14/9/19 1093.5 Leave aston
15/9/19 1093.9 leave burston
16/9/19 1100.5 leave GH @16:00
17/9/19 1101.1 leave tixall
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