Warm and sunny. Mike bought some bread and called in the DIY Weldom to see if they had small sheet of galvanised sheet metal to repair the Torgem’s ash pan, which had a small hole, ready for Winter. He also called in the pharmacy to find something to ease the pain in his knee and bought some glucosamine tablets on the advice of the pharmacist. While he was out the pompiers arrived and set up a pump, right in front of our bows – the fishermen’s quay was empty but their pipe was too short – making a hell of a racket! (When he returned Mike took some photos - it was a training exercise for the guys to set up and run the pump) I made a quiche while Mike was busy cutting and drilling the aluminium strips for the secondary glazing in the bedroom. He stopped to watch the F1 qualis in Singapore.
A tjalk got stuck on the corner; we reckoned he was taking the wrong turn and thought he was going on to the canal. He tried forcing forward, then using the bow thruster to move right; that didn’t work. The skipper took a rope to the bank using his tender; that didn’t work. Mike said he would give him a “snatch” if he was still stuck when the qualis finished but he switched off before it finished and went out to start our engine just as the tjalk had managed to get off the bottom and went very slowly up to the canal. Not long after that yet another hireboat attempted to shoot the weir. Mike was standing on the stern and hooted and waved – eventually they backed off and circled around looking for the entrance to the canal. Half an hour later they came and moored in front of The Big Boat, another American crew. 
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