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mutley's departure 16th april 2010

at about 11am today mutley left swanage heading off to sunny cornwall, the home of the cornish pastie.
we managed to get him on the trailer and he was well behaved, we got the mast down no problem and everything went really smoothly apart from the tyre on the drivers side. after pumping spray foam into it overnight and then driving down in the early hours to avoid traffic, the valve on the wheell didnt like mutleys weight and started to protest. when richard the buyer was strapping on something underneath he spotted.........guess what..........a spare wheel and tyre. yippee i proceeded to change the wheel and we were all relieved.
i must admit i was  alittle sad after i seen mutley leave and thought what a good boat he was. a little love and care to the port hull and a few tidy ups and mutley will be cutting up the waves again pretty soon im sure.

this is the last post on this blog, thank you for reading.  

mutley has been sold

well i never thought i would actually get a buyer or that i would sell mutley.

i advertised him sunday on apollo duck and had a reply the same evening.

hopefully the transaction will go thru ok

more to follow

Spring series 3

Did not sail, launch wheels were out of adjustment and had to be taken home to be sorted.wind was not as predicted and was reasonably fresh early morning N.E wind.

10th april 2010

weather for the weekend was predicted to be nice and sunny and an easterly wind.

when we launched we decided to go off in the poole bar bouy direction as richard had never been there before. when we wee almost out of the bay the wind dropped and the sea was like a mirror.

we had a joke about and i said well the wind is picking up in the afternoon. we eventually got back into the bay and close to shore. we hailed a speedboat over and asked for a tow to the pier, they kindly obliged and we had a good chat to them whilst being towed. when they released us there was a bit more wind, and after we packed the boat away the wind filled in, typical. i did say it would in the afternoon and i was right.

after having problems with the launch wheels i decided eventually not to sail on the sunday. however i did stop overnight and see the sunrise over the isle of wight early morning.

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4th april 2010

SPRING SERIES 2

didnt sail due to gusty winds predicted, wasnt happy to sail with richard as we hadn't had enough pratice