Moving away from Marineville

28th & 29th March

These are the main points of our last two days activities:

We spent yesterday morning sorting out the wood and coal stocks and putting them on board Sanity in preparation for leaving the mooring for the last time today.

We finished sorting through the filing box and identified a lot more paper for recycling.

After lunch we took the recycling to the tip which got us a bit of exercise on a typical late March /early April day, sunny, windy, and cool.

Back on the boat, I investigated options for our trip to Lincoln after Easter. The rail fare would have worked out at £140 altogether, with no guarantee that we’d make it since the RMT is threatening to strike. Hiring a car from Enterprise for four days will cost £100 and of course give us a lot more flexibility.

It was wild and windy this morning, which was a bit of a problem as we needed water and a pump out. In view of the conditions, we took Sanity down to High Lane to wind her and then came back to the water point.

With the tank full, we went down to the winding hole beyond the deeps, winded and came back to the shop mooring for a pump out. It was really very nasty weather for boating, with a sleety rain blowing on the wind, but we made it.

We have now moored outside The Shouting End where we had a late lunch. We’ll stay here until it’s time to go into the yard to transfer our worldly goods into Sanity Again, which will happen over Wednesday and Thursday. These will now include a whirligig clothes drier, kindly obtained for us by Barry and Annie after we admired theirs.

Under the circumstances, I’m going to stop posting to this blog until we are safely on board the new boat. If I get some more pictures in the meantime, I’ll put them up on Flickr and put a short post here and on Building Sanity Again to let people know that they are there.