Thur 23 Jul Inverness Maintenance Day

We all headed to Inverness Marina in two cars. Barbara and Catherine to shops to pick up some victuals while Steve and Steve went to Halfords to procure 10w-40 part synthetic oil for Wight Mistress’s engine oil change. WM gets and oil change every year regardless of engine hours. Since departing Island Harbour on 10 April her engine had chugged on for 187 hours and we have covered 1193 miles in 105 days total, from Island Harbour to Inverness via Beachy Head, then west about.
So and oil change was a well deserved thing. Also did both diesel filters even though they were quite clean. Barbara cleaned Wight Mistress to within an inch of her GRP skin, then hid in the corner of the saloon while Steve emptied the quarterberth in search of maintenance items and to access the engine space from the side panel (for the oil filter removal.) Always a bit of a messy experience, changing the oil filter. A little oil did drop into the bilge but Team White, armed with half a kilometre of paper towel and grim determination, and it was successfully cleaned up.Read more