Perfect Harmony

Perfect Harmony
Moored at Huntingdon

Monday 14 March 2011

launch! 11th March '11


The photos say it all! Very nervewracking watching your whole life on the end of a couple of straps being dangled over water!

So once we were on the water and our final bags and bundles had been thrown on board - Jim and Paul did some buildy type things and then we set off for a mooring for the night! Paul ensured us that we had enough water and diesel for the immediate future so we headed 3 miles up river to Huntingdon centre where there was a free 48 hour mooring.

As we arrived the wind which had been bad all day managed to catch the side of the boat and John had real problems bringing her around - as he was almost moored he felt that the boat wasn't responding quite right and once moored we found that we had run out of diesel! Great start - however Jim and Paul say that they will bring some containers of diesel the next day. They left after some more buildy bits (adding fixtures that couldn't be done until we were launched - and then we ran out of water! Had a takeaway!

Thank you Louise and Steve for the champagne which we not only christened the boat with but also used to clean our teeth since we had nothing else!

Next day we went to local Sainsburys for bottled water and Jim and Paul came back to do more final adjustments plus give us some fuel and we made our way downriver again to get some diesel (impressive buying 100 litres at a time!) and fill up the water tank - also to get some lunch. Whilst manoeuvering the boat John once again had problems and being alone on the boat yelled out "How do you get reverse?" Paul jumped on board and found that the gearbox had died! Jim and I haul the boat around and we sail back to Huntingon

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