Thursday 30 June 2011

The Final Day

Well it’s finally here, the final day of work. Tomorrow I am free for just over two weeks and I can’t wait. Not that I’m doing much tomorrow. The OH is working, I’m waiting around for the gas man to come and install a new gas meter and I am also waiting around for a delivery of the refurbished props. So it will no doubt be a frustrating day of sitting around doing nothing, when there are a hundred and one things that need my attention.

Saturday will be no better. We have a wedding reception to attend in Sheffield, but we have to go to Lincoln first to refit the props, scrub the dinghy, lift the dinghy onto the davits, stock up the boat, clean the boat, refill the diesel tank and generally make sure everything is ready for the off. Then we will head back to Sheffield, go to the party, and then I will drive us back to Lincoln so that we can have an early start on Sunday.

Sunday will be the first real day of the holiday. We will finally set off on our big adventure. On Sunday we have to make it to Boston so it will be a reasonably early start and a full days cruising, including a stop at Fiskerton for some eggs, and no doubt a call in at the Packet Inn on the way past for a lunchtime refreshment or two. It will then be a quiet night in as we have an early start on Monday morning to pick up the 7am tide for Lowestoft.

Finally on Monday we will be off into the deep blue yonder and on the way to Lowestoft and Southwold. The start of a two week long adventure and the most adventurous cruise we have undertaken this far. If this trip goes well it will be the start of new chapter in our ownership of Naughty-Cal, as it will unlock vast swathes of the UK coastline for us to explore from our base in Lincoln and open up a world of new inland cruising grounds. Who knows where she will take us if this trip goes well.

I will endeavour to post updates on our progress over the next couple of weeks, however we fully expect that internet reception will be pretty patchy so I can’t promise the updates will be on a regular basis.

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