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We had quite a lot to do once we were able to access the boat today but to start with we sat for our first onboard tea and coffee working out what needed to be done and in what order. Then we started work trying to find our ways around the boat as much as […]
The trip to the boat once we managed to get going wasn’t actually that bad having had our Covid19 tests done a couple of days before and filled out all the paperwork needed to transit through Athens and then to enter France, with a short train ride to our hotel.
What a year 2020 has turned out to be the paperwork for Galerne didn’t seem that much or that hard to get through to begin with and Thiery was a good as gold explaining the French side of the process which included the deregistration of the boat from France and the changeover of ownership by […]
The survey has come back with nothing that wasn’t expected as I knew the rigging was original and therefore 12 years old but still looking in good condition but as normal probably not good enough for the insurance companies! The pulpit and a couple of stanchions need tightening and he has suggested the through hulls should be replaced which is a little strange on a boat of this age.
There are some superficial marks and stress cracks in the gelcoat that are at the moment cosmetic as long as they aren’t left forever and the rest are 12 years of life on a boat – the washboards are ply and have never been looked after and so are delaminating but are easy enough to replace. The engine control panel has been left out in the sun for way too long and the UV has made a mess of it so we will need to look at a replacement.
There are a few other small bits and pieces but not enough to worry about and so I’ve put my first offer in to feel the water but that was bounced back but we have come to an agreement and so the paperwork begins…
Another mad trip to look at a boat but this one took me to Bandal in the south of France and so with flights booked through the UK I set of for another boat visit. Flying into Marseilles from Stansted wasn’t a bad trip at all and after a stressful trip to the hotel in […]
I wanted to get to see Shearwater for multiple reasons but mainly because she looked a really well-kept boat. I also wanted to get a feel for the First 27.7 because although I’d seen them, I hadn’t actually been on one, so having made this decision that it was to be the new boat one […]
Shearwater is a 2003 First 27.7 in the UK (Bangor) she looks a nice boat that seems to have nearly everything I want plus maybe even a few Ooh I’d like that. She is a lifting keel version that I like the idea of as it means I can trailer her as well as winter […]
