Pat has quite a quiet life recently at Ebley whist awaiting some new iron ballast to help here sit more stable in the water. Today, an opportunity to do a couple of small jobs had us visiting her after lunch.
There had been considerable rain over the weekend, so time to check the state of the bilges. We were not sure that all the pumps were automatically pumping out when the levels rose up - and sure enough, they weren't. The rear bilge, which has the largest catchment area had not worked. An examination of the pump suggested that the float switch worked, but the float might actually be the problem. Has it sunk or was it suffering from sticky bearings? We need to actually remove it to check these points. The pipe connections are very tight, so we'll leave that for another rainy day!
