There’s not a much of Waiouru as we had planned.

Andy and I spent most of the afternoon preparing the CAD layout of Waiouru.  He asked me to physically measure the distances between porthole centres and the total length of Waiouru. 

To my surprise it appears our 58’6” boat is only 57’6”.  This has a potentially adverse affect on the location of the bathroom starboard porthole.  It may not be central in the toilet compartment.  The options are to leave the toilet the original size and offset the porthole; or make the toilet compartment larger and correspondingly reduce the size of the shower cubicle.  Additionally; our saloon is now 14ft rather than the planned 15ft.

I think we will be able to continue with Jan’s galley layout and we have also decided not to alter the dimensions of the bedroom.

Meanwhile Jan cooked recycled bread crust for dinner.  This involves saving approximately 3 weeks of home baked bread crusts.  These are soaked in canal water before being put through the secondary digestion process which converts them to meat.  It’s also very good for noise abatement.   The local duck population is in steady decline!   OK…. I’m jesting… Jan wouldn’t allow me to eat her ducks!   However a noisy flock of Canadian Geese flew over late this afternoon and settled on the lake adjacent to the lock…….. I wonder if they would like to undergo the bread crust process?  

PS.  I’ve noticed the volume of email spam I’m receiving has increased since I started regularly blogging.  I hadn’t realised we had won so many raffles or had so many Nigerian relatives.

The GMail spam filter is very effective and to date only one spam message has actually made it to our inbox.