5th March

Monday. No rain today but a cold strong wind. We filled with water at the tap outside Tony Matts and set sail towards Smeeton bends, we arrived at about noon and put the boat down the feeder channel from the reservoir. In the post that Tim brought, was some new tubs of polish for the boat, so before we closed up for the night I tested it on a bit of the boat. It seemed to be better than anything yet and gave a good glass shiny finish. The dogs had a good chase on the rolling empty fields until they dropped with exhaustion.