End of an era...

MLW has now officially gone up for sale at Venetian Marina...

She was such a good boat for us so here's hoping she finds a new owner who will love her as much as we did. Hard to believe that we had her for over 7 years!

She was a great haven during some difficult times and taught us a lot about owning a boat.

We are delighted with our new boat (Vegvisir) but it's still a wrench to say goodbye to Mind Like Water

Shropshire Union: Nantwich -> Cholmondeston 31/8-1/9/2021

Start: Nantwich Canal Centre

End: Venetian Marina

Miles: 4.5

Locks: 1

Lock miles: 5.5

Engine hours: 662.9 start / 667.2 end

Final trip in Mind Like Water to transfer over to our new boat Vegvisir. Andrew remained at home waiting for confirmation of BSS certificate from Venetian so he could then licence Vegvisir.

Alison already had Mind Like Water's roofbox etc loaded in her car so went ahead to get everything aboard. She eventually ended up moving MLW single handed round to Venetian Marina (such a contrast to couples where the wife can't or won't touch the tiller!).

Andrew managed to get the CRT licence sorted by midday and headed off to meet Alison at Venetian Marina.

We managed to get most of our stuff transferred by the end of Tuesday. Finished off on Weds 1st and then handed the keys over to Venetian. A bitter-sweet moment as Mind Like Water has been such a great boat and has taught us so much about being owners. 

However she was under offer again within a week of going on sale so hopefully she will continue to give enjoyment to her new owner!

And of course we are very excited about getting to grips with our new boat which will take us to all sorts of places we haven't managed to get to yet! Logs for Vegvisir will be on a new blog at https://nbvegvisir.blogspot.com/.

Luckily Nantwich Canal Centre had a longer mooring become available at the start of September so we can stay here. We love the location which is only about 10 minutes walk from Nantwich town centre.