Arts
This exercise was mind-boggling. They brought the boat to the slipway and attached a cable to a shackle located through a large access hole in the front of the boat’s keel. A number of wide greasy wooden bearers were laid on the slipway and the other end of that cable was attached to a winch drum on the rear of a “track – marshall” logging tractor. On the word, the tractor roared, the winch turned and our chosen Vesta of ten tons deadweight, literally leaped out of the water and in an instant was beside us on the slip. The external hull was as good as the inside with no faults whatever and we decided this was the boat for us. Vesta duly arrived back at New Bolingbroke on one of the articulated lorries belonging to neighbour Herbert Epton, she was “parked “ just outside our back door so access for painting and small alterations was ideal.