After settling down our boaty friends we had to stay here for a bit of a banter on saturday night with some forumites that are coming here to meet us, in the meantime ben decided that he wanted to go and see a boat he has been looking at online so asked me if i would go with him of course i said yes, so off we set to Blackwater Meadow marina on the shroppie close to ellesmere, saw the boat he wanted to see and i think he was disappointed as it didn't turn out as he expected poor ben, anyway whilst we were there i suggested he looked at another boat that was 38' he said nah its too small, i persuaded him to look and he was well impressed with the layout of a smaller boat maybe opened up new horizons for him. then we went off to Overwater marina which is in the middle of #fucknowswhere too far from any civilization they were having a RNLI day which sadly we missed and as we arrived 30 minutes before they shut we didnt get to see any boats either, all in all it was a great day out in his little sports car with roof down and wind blowing in your hair.
On thursday we had Sue Day and Bilbo Baggins come by pulling NB Maria they are heading to middlewich Folk and boat festival for the boats 160th birthday.
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| sue ready to harness him up |
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| NB Maria at the lock |
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| Bilbo having a break waiting for the lock |
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| the crew after a great night drinking and eating. |
Back row from left to right forumites :
Smiffy - Trento - Goodboy - Benjam
Front row from left to right :
Tillergirl - June - Goodgirl
must do it again at middlewich
Great to put faces to the names ;o)
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