End of an era

Harvest leaves the farm after three years of painstaking work by Paul.

I did take video footage but cannot load it. So you will have to make do with the photos. The video was 11 minutes long so that may or may not be the problem.

We had to knock her off the concrete blocks and roll her forward before the crane could lift her onto the lorry.

Hence the need to thread the needle through the bow thruster.

Northumberland also left the same day and they were both dropped in at Willington Marina. Good weather but a bit blustery.

Paul told us to bring our own cups and plates. He provided a fabulous German Sausage soup. His sons were not sure of ingredients but there were lentils etc. The sausages were HUGE. He also provided kegs of german beer. Unfortunately I was driving so had to make do with half a cup.

Northumberland had a bit of a list on arriving in the water but as she only has a boatman's cabin so far plenty of opportunity to correct this.

Harvest was perfect. She weighed 19tonnes Paul estimated 18.5 so he was pretty accurate. The batteries weighed a tonne in themselves but these had been perfectly balanced by the 10 gas bottles in the bow.