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Post by NigeL on Mar 26, 2008 9:34:01 GMT 1
Boy am I fed up waiting for boating season to get going again ...
Boats cleaned, repairs near completed .... sitting there waiting for a crane to do the honours.
I start to sort dates for lift-in and what happens ? Winter drops in again giving a last show. With it thawing out - ground has become all soft again - so may have to truck boat through town to harbour instead of re-launch at bottom of garden as planned.
Well all will be sorted later this year when my private slipway and decking gets put in. Along with access road through the estate - then it's ignore weather ... lift in/out as wanted ...
Even have wife's permission to convert half the barn to boathouse ... means extending door height / width to accommodate the 3 boats ...
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Post by jimbuoy on Mar 26, 2008 9:49:25 GMT 1
This Easter weekend really P'd me off. WHat a waste of two Bank holidays!  Boy am I fed up waiting for boating season to get going again ... Boats cleaned, repairs near completed .... sitting there waiting for a crane to do the honours. I start to sort dates for lift-in and what happens ? Winter drops in again giving a last show. With it thawing out - ground has become all soft again - so may have to truck boat through town to harbour instead of re-launch at bottom of garden as planned. Well all will be sorted later this year when my private slipway and decking gets put in. Along with access road through the estate - then it's ignore weather ... lift in/out as wanted ... Even have wife's permission to convert half the barn to boathouse ... means extending door height / width to accommodate the 3 boats ... |
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Post by olivepage on Mar 26, 2008 9:57:13 GMT 1
Yes
Me too - I dared to think spring was just around the corner - and then it snows.
Only just got the boat out of the water, plan to get it back at beginning of April - so now I have to disappear abroad for a fortnight, so thats out now.
I have to work to finance the boat but always seem to end up working when I should be sailing.
Feeling a bit down this morning.
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Post by helina on Mar 26, 2008 10:04:05 GMT 1
Snow storm here today - been winter now for a fortnight - and need to do quite a bit work outside before putting her in the water. Instead been renovating the living room - well it had to be done anyway and now there is only one room to do any more so not completely waisted time. Spring - you can come now...... PLEASE !  |
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Post by ggt on Mar 26, 2008 10:35:02 GMT 1
The saving grace of this weekend was the awful weather... could go do social visiting things inland in the cold, rain, sleet and snow safe in the knowledge that I wouldn't be able to get much done on the boat ... and that even if by some chance I had it done and back in I wouldn't be getting out of the harbour... and even if I did it wouldn't be very nice out there  Part b of the plan is however turning out to be less successful... now no time to get near the boat, very little time left to get her ready, poor weather to work in, kids on holiday and suddenly piles and piles of work to do. And I've pulled and scraped off all the failed paint in the tiller compartment and now can't find my tin of expensive bilge paint  But it will all get sorted and the sun will come out at some point... |
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Post by MoodySabre on Mar 26, 2008 18:22:00 GMT 1
Sorry to be a smug git but as I've only been back 2 weeks after spending a month in South Africa (shorts all day everyday  ) then I can't complain about not being ready to go back in. I did get the keel rust sorted and primed today as well as a few other jobs. By the end of next week maybe....... I was rather hoping the this cold stuff would have happened whilst I was away but I recall it was rubbish at the end of March last year and I only just got finished before launch on 3rd April. Clocks forward on Saturday  |
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Post by ggt on Mar 26, 2008 18:30:38 GMT 1
Clocks forward on Saturday It gets worse. That's 3 pages of tide tables I've wasted. 30p I could have saved... |
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Post by NigeL on Mar 26, 2008 19:33:06 GMT 1
Clocks forward on Saturday It gets worse. That's 3 pages of tide tables I've wasted. 30p I could have saved... Well all the more reason to have online tables !! Free of Charge ! Or even get Belfields CD .... Print of the pages you want as needed. |
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Post by ggt on Mar 26, 2008 19:57:51 GMT 1
Well all the more reason to have online tables !! Free of Charge ! Or even get Belfields CD .... Print of the pages you want as needed. No, no, no! You take the little tables and zoom them up one month to a page on a copier, then pin on wall or keep within reach on desk and use as diary. Never make the mistake of a dentist appointment, lunchtime liason or school concert when the tide's in again Little book then goes in bag with chart for those I-was-so-keen-to-get-out-here-I've-no-idea-when-I-need-to-get-back-by moments. |
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Post by helina on Mar 26, 2008 20:49:30 GMT 1
Well all the more reason to have online tables !! Free of Charge ! Or even get Belfields CD .... Print of the pages you want as needed. No, no, no! You take the little tables and zoom them up one month to a page on a copier, then pin on wall or keep within reach on desk and use as diary. Never make the mistake of a dentist appointment, lunchtime liason or school concert when the tide's in again Little book then goes in bag with chart for those I-was-so-keen-to-get-out-here-I've-no-idea-when-I-need-to-get-back-by moments. What an opportunity for fun we miss in the Baltic sea without tide. No little tables no ...... hmmmm !  |
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Post by NigeL on Mar 27, 2008 16:46:32 GMT 1
I know we miss all the fun ! Terrible that I can go home in evening and cast off for a few hours on the river - or if at Yacht Club in Harbour ... I do miss all that sitting in the mud etc. ;D ;D ;D |
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