Moving Weekend

So... this past weekend we moved from the hell hole of a yard we've been stuck in for the past 4.5 years (see muddy low water photos below), to a new, clean, sparkling, nice place to do our last 2 months worth of work. This is how the old marina looked at low tide....

And this is the long pontoon I've walked down just about every weekend for 3 years.... I can't tell you how big the grin on my face was the last time I walked down this.

I had a few bits and pieces to do on the Friday before we dropped off the car at the new marina, took a cab back to the current yard, packed everything aboard then set off.

The plan was to head over to Cowes for a night but with the wind perking up a bit, a whole lot of stuff on deck and a US Navy aircraft carrier due in the Solent on the Sunday (and all the exclusion zones, etc etc), we motored up to the waiting pontoon in the middle of the Channel to sit tight for the remainder of the day.

Sunday morning dawned and it was time to move into our new marina. I'm pleased to report our solar panels and wind gen did just fine keeping pace with our power usage as well....

Anyway, after a relatively quick motor and holding our breaths over the entrance sill, we got in around lunchtime, tied up, and put the kettle on.

Oh, and I saw this on the way back. It's a DB5 with "Bond J" as plates. Awesome.

So that's it for this week. I have a mate working on the boat for three weeks and I'll be down on the weekends to get the painting done, etc then it'll be time for the final haul out and finish. Still looking good for May 19....