The Boat is currently in Davisons boatyard in Cahirtinny near Loughrea. It had been sitting in the yard of the house we rented outside Loughrea for the last year and a half but I finally managed to get enough spare cash to replace the windows and the windscreen. It will be ready within the next week or so and then I need to shift it to Kinvara where I am getting a permanent mooring.
Davisons are replacing the windows/windscreen and touching up the woodwork, paintwork and antifouling the bottom of the boat. There is also some bodywork being touched up. The final thing will be servicing the two engines - the Aux is not even run in properly - and that's scheduled for later this week. Then she's off to the sea.
It is my intention to get out as often as I can and having the permanent mooring means once the weather is good enough it is only a case of taking the tender down to the slip, rowing out to the boat and making for the outer bay.
Apart from putting in reports (regardless of what happens...
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