Bike on Boat

​Rouge Corsair is back to being a working boat!

​​‘Naw, we'll do it tomorrow.’ He said.
But I knew better.
 
I was about to touch up a window frame (lucky thing!), in the wheelhouse and thought better of it. Although Noel had decided to lift the motorbike onto the boat ‘tomorrow’ – I am quite used to plans changing.
 
At about 6:00 pm the clouds cleared, the sun shone, and as I slipped dinner into the oven (Mousakka) Noel announces, ‘I think we’ll move the boat up the canal and lift the bike on board.’

I didn’t even roll my eyes (well, perhaps a little) – I am used to this.
 
With the oven timer set, we disconnected the power, untied, and did a beautiful reverse manoeuvre into the canal.
 
Puttering along to the turning point we almost kept going. The sun warmed our faces, the engine purred and finally, after a long, cold, Belgian winter, we were on the move – although briefly. It was such a relief.
 
Suddenly, we were back on the dock with the bike and derrick at the ready.

The crowds gathered, the band thrummed out an ear-splitting drum roll……
 
Well, a few of our buddies came to see…
 
 Via Noel’s carefully constructed rope-bridle on the bike we hauled it up, swung the derrick around and smoothly lowered the bike onto the deck.

It was almost an anti-climax it was so easy!
 
We puttered back to our mooring, just for a few more days – soon we head down to Ypres. Butterflies flitted in our stomachs, we’re almost ‘on the road’ again.
 
What task/job have you achieved that was surprisingly easy?

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