Saturday, 28 March 2015

Afloat

Saturday morning the dock was flooded and FL floated out on to the canal in her newly painted hull. Its a sharp turn out of the dock and into Yard lock, I had two guys stopping any scraping out of the dock entrance and one pushing FL's bow around from the opposite bank.


FL easing out of the dock.
FL,s bow gets a helping hand


Geoff stopped work on  the hull of his boat  Seyella in the other dock and  kept FL of the sides in Yard lock. Just staving off the inevitable, at Star lock I removed some of the blacking a little more came off at Aston lock. Oh well that's all part of ownership.




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