Launched at last (as well)

[tillergirl]

Kept us busy pumping all the way down river to Mersea (and a while on the mooring).

 

[Vanilla]

Oh she's pretty! Lucky you

 

[Kilter]

Looking good! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[absit_omen]

Buddy 'ell! I bet you have to think twice before lifting out.

Quite an exercise.

Good luck, see you around the patch when we can compare paint tragedies. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[tillergirl]

Do it every 4 years generally. We got four boats in in the half day crane hire so crane and lorry costs worked out just about £175 per boat.

Every seems to think the paint job is quite good ---- which just goes to show what some people know!

The big leaks stopped after 6 hours!

 

[Lakesailor]

That works out at a decent price.
Did anyone bash the veranda?

Another lovely looking boat. Makes me rather ashamed of having done little work on my little dinghy this year.

 

[tillergirl]

No the veranda was bashed but the corner is now very tight since the canl company 'patio'ed' the lock side for the pub. With its health and safety posts on the lock side patio, we have to have a very short trailer to get round the corner which fortunately Peter Downs (the lorry man) keeps. We also opt for Cannons' All Terrain crane which seems to be able to steer each wheel in whatever direction it wants. Slightly dearer but it puts its hooves out quicker than the more normal crane which mean we can do four boats in the half day minimum hire of the crane. ~Crane and Lorry into yard, boat one lifted on - trundle to the canal side and lift off - repeat three more times - pay everybody and pump the bilge! Had a flood through the starboard quarter seam right in the tight bit of the tuck which required a pump every 15 minutes. Launched just before 9am, it tightened at 4pm just when I was making plans to sleep on board. Ditto one at the stem which had a nice jet of water as though I had drilled a 3mm hole. 4pm, that just shut as well.

 

[ccscott49]

LOvely looking boat, nice to see her in her natural enviroment!

 

[absit_omen]

That's not her natural environment - fresh water and gribble - ugh!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[cliffordpope]

I'm intrigued that the tie-down straps go over the mast and guard-wires. Is that right? I put mine over the cabin roof so they could be strapped down hard. Even so, the contractor wanted additional fore and aft lashings from the prop and stem down to the trailer bed.

 

[tillergirl]

Actually those are the crane strops just dangled over the boat ready to hook up again. They are doing nothing to hold her on the lorry. Because this is such a short journey and one we have done several times as a team, there is only one strap and that to stop her sliding off as we go up the hill. For the rest of the journey, the four pads are holding her in place. Bear in mind Peter was going very slowly. In the past, Peter has put over straps over the gun'le but they have a nasty inboard tugging action as tightened which tends to wring (rther badly) the top of the plank. Note that I forgot my purpose made spacers for the crane strops this year! They normally go under the knuckle.

 

[cliffordpope]

Ah yes, I see it now. Mine had a 40 mile trip along country roads, up and down hill, culminating in about a 1 in 3 down the track to the boatyard.