10th & 11th November
Yesterday was spent as forecast heading back towards Poynton, stopping at Tesco to get all those things which aren’t available in the Marple Co-op. It was my turn to steer, and as luck would have it, the weather, which had been glorious the day before, turned really disgusting.
It rained, not heavily, but steadily and with an icy feel to it which made steering quite a trial. It also got dark very early, so that all-in-all I was very pleased when we reached Adlington and stopped for the night opposite Lyme View Marina.
We’d originally expected to be calling at Braidbar some time just after eight, but during the afternoon Peter Mason rang to ask us to leave it until a bit later in the morning. Accordingly, we set off at nine and by half past had tied near the yard, in fact on Skye’s mooring, she being in the yard at the moment. Peter has found a buyer for Skye, so they are just polishing off some odd jobs on her ready to be handed over next month.
The shell is also in the yard now, though they haven’t had a chance to do much to her. This is because, most unusually, there were problems with the portholes from Procast. Two of them hadn’t been finished properly, and most of the glazing was the wrong size. Whilst we were there, a guy turned up from Procast and took them all away. They should all be back tomorrow. Since the first job is to fit the portholes so as to make the shell weatherproof, this has prevented the battening and ballasting from getting under way.
We spent about four hours with Peter and Susan, going through the plan for Sanity Again from bow to stern, confirming decisions we’d already made and finally making our minds up on a number of others. I’ll report on this in more detail on the other blog on Friday.
We had a sandwich whilst this was going on, and then set off to boat to Deer Farm Bend. My physio appointment is at half nine tomorrow, so we’ll need to be away from here in good time in the morning.
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