New to touring

Alan237
Alan237 Forum Participant Posts: 13
edited March 2018 in Your stories #1
Hi! we are new to touring having spent the last 30 years towing a 21ft 4 berth sailing yacht. Towing and reversing is therefore familiar to us, but didn't prepare us for our first forays into caravan touring! We purchased a 2014 Pegasus Verona privately last year and booked our first pitch in the Lake District for 5 nights. That was 3 days without running water as I couldn't fathom the pump command! Instinctively I reached for my tools and stripped the exterior socket and reassembled it repeatedly until the adjacent caravaner popped across, took one look, pressed the correct icon which I had mistaken for the heating system, and hey presto! running water (which wouldn't switch off) that took another session of strip and reassembly of the socket to correct my misassembly!
Apart from the non flushing toilet - subsequently fixed by cleaning the pump and freeing off the jammed mechanism -the rest was plain sailing - please forgive the boating reference! An inoperative motor mover was the next fix - handset repair to faulty on off switch - now we are fully prepared for 2018 adventures!