As I said yesterday, one of the challenges is to find a boat yard with time to do the necessary work! After loads of research into yards that I can actually get Relativity to in a reasonable time I'd narrowed the list down to 8.A friend of my mum's has been a boater for 17 years and really knows his stuff. He recommended a yard near Walsall (2 days' chugging away) called Norton Canes Boatbuilders (http://www.nortoncanesboatbuilders.co.uk/) so this morning I phoned them. Lovely helpful people.
And here's the weird bit... anyone even half way decent is usually booked up months in advance - except that I happen to know that this morning they had a cancellation (fabulous thing the towpath telegraph) so we're booked in with them on Monday morning!
The weekend looks a bit manic :-)
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Hi Stuart, do you make this epic journey alone, or are the boys joining you? Enjoy your day and take some photos for us :-)
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Your question can be answered on so many levels! The boys won't see Relativity until she's had some more work done on her. They probably won't be able to join her on the journey down from the Midlands because of school etc.
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She will become their second home and so the life journey will be shared.
P.S. more photos to come