After a bit of tooing and froing over dates of when we could go and visit our builders, to sus if we've got things right, contact has been successfully made this morning and we are heading there next Monday! What a birthday treat for Mick.
Better get the galley sorted and any alterations done over the weekend.
Excited!
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
5th May
We sat down over the weekend and went through the list of extras and where we might store things. At Christmas I had started to make a scale model of Oleanna so that we could visualize the layout better. I'm a Theatre Designer, so making models is what I spend a lot of time doing. The model came out and scribbles were done for amendments. The freezer has gone, but drawing board storage stays. A few questions noted for Richard and Kevin for when we see them next.
Houdini had a good look too and became a bit concerned over the size of her door. But she seemed happy with the position of her food bowls.
Now to find time to do a new plan and maybe update the model whilst waiting for work to kick in, oh and decorating!
Houdini had a good look too and became a bit concerned over the size of her door. But she seemed happy with the position of her food bowls.
Now to find time to do a new plan and maybe update the model whilst waiting for work to kick in, oh and decorating!
Thursday, 2 May 2013
1st May
Crick Boat show tickets arrived this morning. Lots of boats to see and lots to ideas to absorb.
Friday, 26 April 2013
Thursday, 25 April 2013
24th April
Today we got the list of extras emailed to us from Richard. How much to put a cat flap in?!! Houdini will have to choose a cheap one to be fitted at that price.
We've also had an invoice for the first payment so that they can order the steel for the hull. Gosh this is exciting! But no signed contract back from them as yet. We've been promised it in tomorrows post.
Now we need to sit down and really consider the extras and layout, window positions need to be decided upon soon.
On another front, we are now one step closer to renting the house out. We are now mortgage free, thanks to our parents leaving us money. This means we can do what we want with the house and when we want to do it. We had a glass of Crabbies to celebrate, oh, and followed by the bottle of wine later!
We've also had an invoice for the first payment so that they can order the steel for the hull. Gosh this is exciting! But no signed contract back from them as yet. We've been promised it in tomorrows post.
Now we need to sit down and really consider the extras and layout, window positions need to be decided upon soon.
On another front, we are now one step closer to renting the house out. We are now mortgage free, thanks to our parents leaving us money. This means we can do what we want with the house and when we want to do it. We had a glass of Crabbies to celebrate, oh, and followed by the bottle of wine later!
The beginning
So after months of wondering when we would see our narrowboat Oleanna built we may now have an idea. The chaps who are building her have a bit of a reputation for being late, so our build slot of July, meaning a launch October to November, we'd been thinking might be more like early December.
But yesterday 23rd April 2013 Mick had a phone call from Kevin. They are trying to get a bit ahead of themselves and therefore would like to lay the base plate at the end of May beginning of June! Gosh, we hadn't factored in having a boat sooner!!!
There is lots still to work out, we know our basic layout and what we'd like onboard (extras), but it has all seemed quite a long way off until now. Serious boat conference needed in the next week.
Of course they may start it in May, but Kevin is due a heart operation at some point, any point, so that may well hold things up. We'll see.
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