Baboons!

Don't leave the back door open!!!


Fortunately, not my kitchen, but a friend's... nasty little buggers, aren't they?

Skip.

:(

She's home!

Platanna, that is!

Along with a car load (and a boat load) of stuff; outboard motor, spare props, half full tins of paint and anti-fouling, life jackets, ropes, chains, spares, tools... Well, you get the picture.


Now, I need to finish off Lazy Days before the end of this month (deck is all cut and fitted, so mostly sealing and gluing left to do), then I can get it out the way and started on cleaning up Platanna.


The plan is to re-launch before our local bird-fair on the first weekend of October - Platanna is advertised as a bird-watchers' boat after all.

Happy Days!

:) :) :)

My boats.

Yep, plural!


After driving "Platanna" over the summer and taking a share of the profits, I was approached by the owners who are now wanting to sell the business.

So, as of this coming weekend, both the boats in this picture will be mine - "Three Summers" the pretty one with the outboard is the one I built in London, and "Platanna" with the awning which is the commercial one.

The most important part of this deal is not so much the boat, which needs a bit of work, but the commercial licence to use it (or any other boat of mine) on the river. There are only three licences. One for the "African Queen" (quite possibly one of THE most unattractive vessels ever built - see below) one for "River Rat" and one for "Platanna."


So, there you have it - perhaps choosing the user name "Skipper" before moving back to Africa was a premonition of sorts.

'cos now I really am one!

:) :) :)