March2018

          Day five of our week saw us doing our first solo trip! As expected, with our new found confidence, it all went to plan with no dramas. We had a very pleasant trip from Thatcham to Newbury and arrived just about lunchtime, just as it […]

  Today was the second day of our Helmsman’s Course and Tim arrived at Aldermaston at 9.30 a.m as arranged. He spent a long time going through the boat’s various systems with us – we now know how to switch on the inverter! It was quite windy today which gave […]

      Day three of our Moving Week was eventful, to say the least! We were at the marina for our crane lift at 7.30 am; the lorry was already there. They placed the straps on the boat, lifted her a bit to make sure she was balanced, adjusted […]

We arrived at Dobson’s Wharf this morning and the first thing we did was to have breakfast for the first time on our own boat! We stayed in a hotel last night simply because we thought it would be so cold and damp on the boat, with it not having […]

  We had booked this week off work in order to move the boat down from Dobson’s Wharf to our new mooring in Newbury Marina, but we hadn’t accounted for the weather! We’d booked a Helmsman’s Course with Tim from Watercraft Training – today on his boat at Calcutt Marina […]