... but it's all right this time it's planned!
Well the weather forecast for the weekend and into next week is frankly pants. More gales, albeit not of quite the same severity as last weekend
Normally, I'd look at that forecast and call off a weekend trip to the boat on the grounds that it just wouldn't be worth it but we won't be entirely happy until we've been and checked her over for ourselves.
The key worry was getting down to Fambridge tomorrow afternoon and finding the river too rough to safely paddle out to Erbas in our not terribly clever little dinghy. So I thought to myself "if you don't ask, you don't get" and after a couple of attempts to ring the yard (I hate answerphones!) I dropped them an email asking if there was any chance somebody could move her onto the pontoon for us
Back came a prompt response in the affirmative - no problem, it would be done this afternoon
I thought to myself "well, in for a penny and all that" so fired back an enquiry as to when we might, perchance, be able to move to a marina berth ...
Yep, it worked! Back came the reply that they'd run out of time this afternoon and hadn't got around to putting Erbas on the river pontoon so they'd move her into the marina and onto her winter berth in the morning!
Result!
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