The things we do forfun??????

Crane driver!?

Now I never thought for one moment that after giving up teaching I might become a crane driver!!! But last week, I did! Well, sort of…………….

Having arrived at Bordeaux and left the low bridges of the canal behind us, we needed to put the mast up again. We had heard it could be done in the locks at Bordeaux. What we hadn’t really realised was, that they simply gave you the key to the crane and left you to get on with it!!!!

Luckily [I just knew it wouldn’t be easy] we [I] had recruited the help of Alan who had come down the river at the same time as us. Hoping for the easiest option, I was the crane operator, leaving Paul and Alan to do the tricky stuff with the mast and rigging. Really, all I had to do was turn the crane handle as directed…but there were some tricky moments and lots of ups and downs……………..but we did it!

So, now we are a proper yacht again!

But, crane driving will not be my next carreer move!!!