Been shopping!

Well, it's taken a little while but we think we have found the one! Rachael and I have looked at quite a few boats now, something like two each day for a few weeks. We've been following the same process each day, scour the classifieds each evening, in the morning ring the brokers or owners to see if they are still available and to find out the information they have failed to mention. We then head off across England to view the selected boats.

You are probably thinking that it doesn't sound too difficult and most of it isn't, until you try and find most of these marinas. We forgot to ask for directions the first couple of times and then we learnt! The marinas are usually down a little lane somewhere, under a railway bridge and left at the such and such farm gate; truly!

Anyway, we found Serafina at Stoke-on-Trent. It's a 57 foot, traditional narrow boat. It's a four berth with a full kitchen, saloon, dinette and main bedroom. For the more technical readers it has an Isuzu 43 HP engine and a PRM150 hydraulic gearbox. The next step now is to pull it out of the water and have it surveyed from top to bottom, that happens next Wednesday. Here are a few pictures for now and we will know much more next Wednesday.

 

 

 

Kitchen

Dinette



Saloon