It never rains but .. (name check for Messrs W & G Parker).

VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Thu 9 Dec 2010 21:07
....it pours. While repairing the generator I noticed a leak from our pressurised water system. Turned out to be the overpressure valve (I know so little about boat plubing that I didn't even know we had one). Nedless to say we have no spare. Spooky coincidence that it started leaking at the same time that I was working in the engine room - perhaps it got knocked. Anyway, can't repair it, and if it fails badly it could emty our entire water tank into the bilge. So we are monitoring closely. We have rigged up a half bottle swinging on a string underneath it to catch the drips. Very Heath-Robinson (ask Mummy who he was, William & George. She'll have to look it up because she's too young to know) but it works. Fingers now crossed.