Mar. 12, 2007 - a grand weekend

What a fabulous weekend!

We had previously agreed to go down to Essex, and help out FullCircle with a few jobs on his boat in order to assist in the desperate rush to get her ready for re-launch in 3 weeks time!

We arrived in Burnham by 14h00 Saturday, and I was promptly hoiked up the mast of an entirely different boat to fit a new wind instrument sender.... that took 2 hours, and an almightly juggling act of hanging on to a drill, large river gun, various fixtures and fittings, a screwdriver (to tighten the windex back up) and of course the wind sender itself.... but we got there...

We then retired to the other important job... the pub!

This was tiring activity, so we returned to FullCircle's house, where Lynn supplied a fabulous evening meal of Duck in a cherry sauce, we tried a few more drinks, and passed out eventually.

A reasonably early start the following morning, saw us at FullCircle's boat by 10h00, and we set to.... we replaced the mousing lines with halyards for all the various bits of string on board... amazing weather... 17 degrees and clear blue skies... the ocassional wander over to the sea wall saw various craft plying their way up and down the Crouch.... marvellous stuff...

The only mistake we made was with the topping lift, where the join between the mousing line and the rope parted... so that'll be a trip up the mast when she's back in the water....

The kids meanwhile armed with paint brushes and a tin of bright yellow Toplac, treated FullCircles old tender to a shiny new look for the start of the season...

Inevitably, we wandered over to Royal Corinthians, and ended up in the bar.... it was glorious sitting on the balcony in the sun watching the world sail by....a large fleet of Oppies having a ball, a few yachts clearly enjoying the 15kts of wind, and all was well with the world...

We have got to get our boat situation sorted!!!!