...have arrived. Hurrah! Rather interestingly, they smell of white spirit!
We are now waiting for a response to our offer for WW. Tenterhooks are being waited upon! We need her so that we can sail to Cropredy!
Monday 20 December 2010
Final Furlong?
So tomorrow later today we'll be confirming our offer on WW, subject to a few minor points raised by the survey. Of course, now we are in holiday season, it is likely that completion of the deal will take some time yet.
Thursday 16 December 2010
Survey...
So the survey was done today. The general overview is positive, with a few minor things that need taking care of. Basically, what we were hoping for. So relieved that we havnae waited for nearly 2 months for the survey just to be told that she's as rusty as a Lancia car! Things can get back into full swing now so hopefully we'll no longer be boatless early in the new year.
Sunday 12 December 2010
Fat fingers strike again
Hello readers,
Kicking our heels waiting for the survey. Hope the weather doesn't turn for the worse down on the K&A. Today I moved my stuff out of my flat, some of it to SWMBO's gaff. Totally cream crackered now.
Speaking of SWMBO, it appears that her attempt to purchase the Cropredy 2011 tickets last week were in vain, due to a case of fat finger syndrome.*
Yesterday I played in the Christmas concert of The Roding Players Orchestra.
Here's a snap of my Taylor Custom Trumpet:
Only 4 days to go until the survey. This time next week we should know if the boat is as good as we are hoping!
(* in which the wromg kee/bluton is prezd at an inopportoon momont)
Kicking our heels waiting for the survey. Hope the weather doesn't turn for the worse down on the K&A. Today I moved my stuff out of my flat, some of it to SWMBO's gaff. Totally cream crackered now.
Speaking of SWMBO, it appears that her attempt to purchase the Cropredy 2011 tickets last week were in vain, due to a case of fat finger syndrome.*
Yesterday I played in the Christmas concert of The Roding Players Orchestra.
Here's a snap of my Taylor Custom Trumpet:
Only 4 days to go until the survey. This time next week we should know if the boat is as good as we are hoping!
(* in which the wromg kee/bluton is prezd at an inopportoon momont)
Sunday 5 December 2010
Waiting is over rated
Hello,
Since we're still waiting on the survey,there isn't much to report on the boat front. This week has been a bit weird, with the snowy conditions meaning where I work has been closed to non-staff from Tuesday to Thursday. Tuesday I managed to motorcycle to work in the fresh snow, but come Wednesday I thought better of it and got the tube for the rest of the week.
On Wednesday we purchased our tickets to Cropredy 2011. The plan is to sail up there on Water Witch, and make it an extended summer cruise.
Today Itortured entertained the patrons of Loughton Farmers' Market playing Christmas carols on my trumpet with the wind section of the orchestra in which I play.
Playing and practising the trumpet is something I will have to arrange around living on board, since it is not the most sociable of instruments to play in a marina. Guess I'll have to keep the noise making to the facilities at work. Of course, when we're off cruising I can be a bit more relaxed about it! Here's me taking a break from practise somewhere on the Middlewich branch back in May, which was the last time we were afloat.
11 days to go until the survey.
Since we're still waiting on the survey,there isn't much to report on the boat front. This week has been a bit weird, with the snowy conditions meaning where I work has been closed to non-staff from Tuesday to Thursday. Tuesday I managed to motorcycle to work in the fresh snow, but come Wednesday I thought better of it and got the tube for the rest of the week.
On Wednesday we purchased our tickets to Cropredy 2011. The plan is to sail up there on Water Witch, and make it an extended summer cruise.
Today I
Playing and practising the trumpet is something I will have to arrange around living on board, since it is not the most sociable of instruments to play in a marina. Guess I'll have to keep the noise making to the facilities at work. Of course, when we're off cruising I can be a bit more relaxed about it! Here's me taking a break from practise somewhere on the Middlewich branch back in May, which was the last time we were afloat.
11 days to go until the survey.
Sunday 28 November 2010
Meeting the neighbours
The BW key arrived this week so we took the train up to Sawbridgeworth and then walked the 5ish miles along the icey Stort down to our mooring. If everything goes well, we'll be moving Water Witch here at the beginning of March 2011. Seems an age away, but I'm sure it will pass quickly.
While we were at the marina, we bumped into some of the boaters who are going to be my new neighbours. A very friendly bunch. "Do you like to drink?", one of them asked...I think I'm going to like it here!
Went to a nearby public house for lunch and beer, and then home to North London. Very cold!
18 days until the survey and counting!
While we were at the marina, we bumped into some of the boaters who are going to be my new neighbours. A very friendly bunch. "Do you like to drink?", one of them asked...I think I'm going to like it here!
Went to a nearby public house for lunch and beer, and then home to North London. Very cold!
18 days until the survey and counting!
Sunday 21 November 2010
Hello
Hello,
Welcome to our blog. We are currently in the process of buying a 60ft narrowboat. It is called Water Witch. Sometimes things go quickly, and then we hit a snag. We only made the offer on the boat about 2 weeks ago. The finances are all sorted and we have a mooring lined up. Things were running nice and smoothly but then we hit one of those snags. Before we sign on the dotted line, and before the bank hands over the loan we've arranged, we need to get a survey done. For that to happen we need to take the boat out of the water, and the earliest that is going to happen is the week before Christmas - nearly a month! Of course, once you hit one snag, you notice another one waiting in the wings...for us that snag in waiting is the fact that a lock we need to go through to get the boat to our Essex mooring is going to be closed...until the end of February. As we say in Essex...proper annoying! (or words to that effect).
I first thought about getting a boat to live aboard about 20 years ago. I guess waiting another couple of months before it actually happens isn't the end of the world!
Anyway, that's the story so far. For the time being I'll try to update here once a week.
In the meantime, here's a picture with a canal in it...and a bus:
Welcome to our blog. We are currently in the process of buying a 60ft narrowboat. It is called Water Witch. Sometimes things go quickly, and then we hit a snag. We only made the offer on the boat about 2 weeks ago. The finances are all sorted and we have a mooring lined up. Things were running nice and smoothly but then we hit one of those snags. Before we sign on the dotted line, and before the bank hands over the loan we've arranged, we need to get a survey done. For that to happen we need to take the boat out of the water, and the earliest that is going to happen is the week before Christmas - nearly a month! Of course, once you hit one snag, you notice another one waiting in the wings...for us that snag in waiting is the fact that a lock we need to go through to get the boat to our Essex mooring is going to be closed...until the end of February. As we say in Essex...proper annoying! (or words to that effect).
I first thought about getting a boat to live aboard about 20 years ago. I guess waiting another couple of months before it actually happens isn't the end of the world!
Anyway, that's the story so far. For the time being I'll try to update here once a week.
In the meantime, here's a picture with a canal in it...and a bus:
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