Dear Val and Peter ... I just sat down to read nonet and saw
your message. I am so sorry for you two I'm at a loss for words :-{
....
Best of luck
Stan
>
>Thanks, Chris - however, it is pretty academic now, as Thumper sunk
>yesterday, despite everybody's best efforts to keep her afloat. It just
>seems as though the bottom has fairly suddenly turned into a colander
>and we now have at least 3 significant leaks. Poor Husband Mr Boater
>turned up home late last night, having managed to get her onto the
>slipway at our moorings, with the help of kind mates and a landrover
>but it is definitely the end and we are now looking to see how you
>actually get rid of a boat for scrap! First phone call this morning
>will be to the insurers, then he will have to hire a petrol pump (the
>engine, of course, will not start any more, to keep any sort of bilge
>pump going), go back down to the boat to pump out and salvage what he
>can of our things. I'm at work so can't help at all, but I felt so
>sorry for him - Thumper has been his pride and joy for 32 years but
>maintenance has never been too wonderful and I think that, plus the
>ravages of time, have just finished her.
>So, anybody in the scrap business??
>Cheers
>Val
>nb Thumper, currently sunk at Calveley, on the Shroppie
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