A busy day today.
Main order of business was business. Fitting a new Raymarine i40 Bidata instrument head to a customers boat finally resolved a bit of a saga with their depth sounder.
In the meantime, there was much to-ing and fro-ing with boats being shuffled from the pontoon to the mud berths, from the pontoon onto buoys and the arrival of the vanguard of the Old Gaffers
The major excitement was the arrival of Vic 96...
She rivals our resident Thames Sailing Barge Ironsides in the big budget stakes!
By the end of the afternoon, Erbas was just about the most modern boat left on the pontoon! (Although there's a plastic gaffer that's considerably newer than us!)
We'll shuffle of onto our mooring in the morning to make way for more of these gaffery boats. I did debate hoisting the spinnaker pole up the mast and claiming it was a gaff but I doubt it'd fool anyone!
Back end of the afternoon I took our RIB for a run up to Brandy Hole, a couple of miles upriver, and back to run our mate Nigel back to get his car. He's moved his boat down to Fambridge today and taken up residence
Back aboard, I fired up the full size guitar for a good practice session in preparation for Sunday which went OK. Still a bit raw and rusty here and there but it isn't going to get much better now!
By the time I'd scared of the seagulls for several miles around, Jane and Glen arrived having had a pretty good journey down for a Friday evening, let alone a bank holiday weekend.
We promptly repaired to the pub for beer and grub both of which were in fine fettle. A rum enhanced coffee back aboard finished the evening in fine style
Main order of business was business. Fitting a new Raymarine i40 Bidata instrument head to a customers boat finally resolved a bit of a saga with their depth sounder.
In the meantime, there was much to-ing and fro-ing with boats being shuffled from the pontoon to the mud berths, from the pontoon onto buoys and the arrival of the vanguard of the Old Gaffers
The major excitement was the arrival of Vic 96...
She rivals our resident Thames Sailing Barge Ironsides in the big budget stakes!
By the end of the afternoon, Erbas was just about the most modern boat left on the pontoon! (Although there's a plastic gaffer that's considerably newer than us!)
We'll shuffle of onto our mooring in the morning to make way for more of these gaffery boats. I did debate hoisting the spinnaker pole up the mast and claiming it was a gaff but I doubt it'd fool anyone!
Back end of the afternoon I took our RIB for a run up to Brandy Hole, a couple of miles upriver, and back to run our mate Nigel back to get his car. He's moved his boat down to Fambridge today and taken up residence
Back aboard, I fired up the full size guitar for a good practice session in preparation for Sunday which went OK. Still a bit raw and rusty here and there but it isn't going to get much better now!
By the time I'd scared of the seagulls for several miles around, Jane and Glen arrived having had a pretty good journey down for a Friday evening, let alone a bank holiday weekend.
We promptly repaired to the pub for beer and grub both of which were in fine fettle. A rum enhanced coffee back aboard finished the evening in fine style
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