The Maisibert

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

This photograph is showing Union Quay at night.

This is Union Quay at Market Harborough showing the the empty resturant building and some Canal Time boats on their moorings.

It is now five weeks since returning from our journey from Australia and four weeks since moving on to The Maisibert.

We have spent the last four weeks squeezing in the last few items into their respective storage space with the help of the Velcro,spring clips and hooks.

We travelled from the marina and spent a few days at Weedon before we set of to Market Harborough with the help of Claire,Craig and Matt on the Easter Weekend who made it their target to get us there whilst I shuffled the car.

After spending a few days at Union Quay looking around this wonderful market town we made the return journey to Norton Junction where this weekend our friends Dave and Sue came up and assisted us in getting the boat to Atherstone locks were we are presently moored between locks 5 and 6.

Cassie was very subdued her first few weeks back on the boat as we think she missed Meg and all her friends at Helen's but has now got used to being the ships dog.
Her first birthday is on Thursday and we wish Cassie, her brother and sisters a happy birthday.

I will post some pictures of our trip,Cassie and promise to update the blog site on a regular basis.

Wednesday, 17 December 2008

"The Story of The Maisibert "

After a life long dream of owning a boat and cottage in Suffolk, we finally realised that we could never afford our dream so we took the decision to buy a narrow boat.We visited narrow boat brokers and looked at many second hand boats but decided that we would go the extra mile and have a boat built to our specification.So the search started for a boat builder and the style of boat, we purchased a canal boating magazine to get idea's and read about a fit out which was very modern and had unique curved galley units.We visited the yard and talked to the owner's of the featured boat and decided that we would like our boat to be of a similar design. We started our research to formulate our specification.We visited boat shows, talked to other boat owners, read books and anybody else that we thought could give us the information we required.On the 5th December 05 we signed the contract with the builder of the featured boat after completing his move to Blisworth. The hull builder laid the base plates in March 06 to start the boat of our dreams.We named the boat after my parents as a tribute to them as their life time of hardwork allowed us to achieve our dream.

The Maisibert has had extra drain holes put in on the roof at the stern end.

The work was carried by Baxters Boat yard in Northampton

Tuesday, 18 November 2008

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pc5zRAC4O6Q

After many weekends cruising and time with the new puppy I have finally got round to putting a video together of our fourth crew member and you can watch it from the link above.