Departure time

July 30th, 2009 by admin Leave a reply »

I’ve had a stressful evening. Everything has happened last minute, and meant I’ve not had time to do all the things I wanted.

Over the last two days I put Rob’s new website live, and we’ve had a whole array of problems with the hosting provider. This has meant I’ve spent most of today playing web developer, which was then fantastically topped off by all his email being lost in some completely unexpected result of transferring his domain names; thus began a two hour IT support session, which I’ve not long since finished.

The upshot of this is that the boat is still in a bit of a mess and not totally ready for sea, but she’ll have to do. I collected the pile of washing up that needed doing and shoved the dirty pots under the galley. If I can a calm crossing tomorrow It’ll give me something to do then, else, it can wait until whereever I stop.

I need to get to sleep, so I’m not doing anymore jobs tonight. This post will be the last thing I do, but I’m going to bed unhappy with the state of Kudu.

I’m setting my alarm for 0100, getting up making a brew, shoving anything heavy away somewhere secure, then setting off at 0200 in the company of another two boats. One of which will promptly vanish off at a great rate og knots, and the other, I shall hopefully be in the company of all the way to Grimsby, although, there’s murmerings of a plan to continue to Scarborough. We shall see I guess.

Oh, by the way, if you would care to take a look at the new Harbour Chandlery web site, click here. I still have a bit to do with it, and I have yet to build the shop side of the website, but that will be done as soon as I can. Rob really does go out of his way for his customers, so if you’re looking for boaty bits, he’s well worth a call.

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  1. jono says:

    Hi Nathan,

    Went up to Brancaster this afternoon for a sail and got caught up in one of the storms you mentioned in your last post. Very, very windy and some nasty lightning strikes close by. Good call putting off the departure! Also many thanks to Brancaster sailing club for giving us a tow back to the mooring once the lightning had subsided. They had quite a job looking after the sailing schools as it was.

    Have a good trip!

    jono

  2. Mum says:

    Hope the trip goes well wherever you end up keep safe.

  3. Ian says:

    Best of luck Nathan, have a great time, Scarborough is a lovely place just a bit bigger than Wells, cant say much fro Grimsby i am afraid though!! Cheers Ian

  4. Mum says:

    I rang Nathan at 3am this morning we had a bad line but he is out at sea somewhere, no cream scones this morning!

  5. Jenny says:

    E-mails all back – you are a star! Hope your journey is fun you’ve got lovely weather for it!! Keep safe – looking forward to seeing you again soon x

  6. Ashley Tippin says:

    Best of Luck Nathan

  7. Sunny says:

    Hello,

    Any news on the Camera front?

    Had a look at the Website, really nice and I know you have work to do, so thought I would let you know I spotted a very slight typo under Commercial Services: (and and). :@)

    Noone’s perfect. Lol. (Dont worry won’t be giving up the day job!)

    Bye.

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