A bit of excitement on leaving. Just after leaving the pontoon the engine exhaust changed to a hollow “bob bob bob..” sound, whereas it should be “bob splosh gurgle bob…”. No water was coming out. However there was just time to get through the narrows before overheating and then the rest of the channel was downwind. So we soon turned off the engine and started tinkering with the cooling water, remembering to start with all the simple reasons for it not working before dismantling it all. It turned out that a plug of mud was blocking the water inlet in the bottom of the boat, presumably it got there when we sat on the mud at low tide in the night.
Ashore at Fishguard, Geoff Turner came to meet us and took us for tea at the cafe. As he is the Welsh rep for the PSSA I had contacted him earlier.
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