Hand-Over

Chris and I went off to Hamble on our own on Friday Morning to receive ownership of Octopus. We spent about three hours looking over her and tried very hard to take in all the details of how everything worked, we have been living on board now for five days now and we still haven’t got around to reading all the manuals. We managed a test sail for a couple of hours on Friday afternoon and then they handed us the keys and left us to unpack our gear and get settled in. We had just about got everything stowed away when Pat, Pete and Jane arrived followed by Mike, Tim and Alan. Leaving them to sort out who would be lucky enough to share a bunk with Pat, we got ready for the walk to the pub. We had a very nice meal at the Olde White Harte leaving early because of our early start….well some of us left early, other stayed for just one more!