What a weekend!

I know that David posted some pictures of the end of season party on Sunday and I think that the pictures speak for them selves but it has to be said what a fantastic party it was and a big thanks go out to the staff at Norbury for pulling it together, and working hard on the evening, the friends of Norbury for their help in setting up the marquees and the general help getting it set up, a huge thanks to Steve Hall who entertained us later on with his music and laughter,(he even got me up on stage) the Swing band who were amazing and entertained us from 7 O'clock (they really were amazing, and whats more they went on to do two more gigs that night) The chap who did us proud with the hog roast, and Jenny who manned the bar on the trip boat, she did a sterling job! And finally a BIG thank you to everyone that made the effort to come out to the party on such a dismal and depressing night, If you were there I think that you will all agree it was worth the effort!

It takes such a lot of hard work to put an event on like that while trying to carry on with the day to day business and I did think early on Saturday that it would be the last one that we did, BUT given the good time that everyone had and how smoothly it went I cant wait for the next party which will be even better!

Cheers
Simon

End of Season Party 2013

After weeks of planning we hosted our 2013 End of Season Party last night which was a great success. The pictures say it all really...

 

 

 

 

Until next year!

Regards,

David

Progress with Thea - Week 3

The painting of Thea has progressed well again this week. Here's a few pictures to update you.

The chequer plate front deck has been undercoated and the final topcoats of International Danboline have been applied. The front bulkhead has had it's first topcoat of Danboline too and the door jams have been sprayed to get good coverage in all those awkward areas.

The back cabin is coming on a treat too. The cabin sides and back bulkhead are in undercoat as are the rear cants. The counter top (back deck) has had it's first coat of Danboline too.

And here's a view of the other side.

The cabin top (roof) has been painted.

Mick has been busy making a new (wooden) rear slide which is now in undercoat.

He has also made and fitted new slide runners out of hard wood, which look a treat.

The engine hole slides are also receiving undercoat.

I'm hoping that you will see a real transformation by the end of next week, so keep an eye out for an update!

Best regards,

David.

Its nearly party time!

We have a great night planned for this coming Saturday evening, I just hope that all of the hard work and plans come off, We should be having a superb 7/8 piece band doing the early evening slot, they do some great foot tapping stuff and some excellent songs too, then they will be followed by Steve Hall or Stevo as some might know him, he might be bringing a friend or two with him to accompany him, he does some great stuff as as the night gets on he will no doubt be doing some of his own stuff which Can be seriously funny and a bit close to the knuckle, so that's the entertainment sorted! The food is being put on by Norburys own staff in the form of baked spuds with lashings of butter and cheese, topped with home made Chile if wanted, and on top of that if there is room left there is a hog roast too! The drinks list is a good one too, Bombarder (cask) beer, Doom Bar (cask) beer, Boddingtons (smooth pour) Becks veir (larger) and the usual wines and spirits, the trip boat will be alongside the wharf as the main bar, food will be served in the Tea room and the entertainment,stage, main tables and seating will be in the marque which will be adjacent to the shop on the wharf. So if you were thinking of coming but not quite sure think again because its going to be a great night!

If you havent had an invite we might have overlooked you, just drop me an email to remind me! info@norburywharfltd.co.uk 

Regards
Simon

It's been a very busy day here today. I don't know where the time has gone to today, no sooner had I seen the dayboat away it was lunchtime and here we are now, at 5pm!

We have run four one-hour long trips on the trip boat today. They have been extremely popular even during the wet periods that we have experienced today. 

Denise and Lynn have been busy in the tearoom all day, whilst Ange has floated between the shop and the tearoom. I have been here there and everywhere (or so it feels...). Sylvia has been with Will working the trip boat. Mick has been doing Mick things and Lee has docked and undocked a boat following a survey, done some strimming, pumpouts, diesel etc.

As the season draws to an end, we have to reduce our staff numbers, so today has seen us say farewell to Lynn. She has been an asset to our team over the summer and she will be missed. She says that she won't miss us, but I am sure that she will! Anyway, good luck Lynn and we wish you all the best in the future and please do pop in from time-to-time to say hello.

Anyway, that's all from me today.

Until tomorrow...

Regards, David.

Progress with Thea - Week 2

I thought that I would give you an update on Thea.

The whole boat has now been prepped and Richard has started applying rust inhibitor, primers and undercoats. Here's some of the latest pictures for you to have a look at.

The whole of the cabin top (commonly known as the roof) is now in primer as are the Northwich style handrails. These handrails take a long time to prepare and paint as they stand an inch or so off of the cabin top on little stilts.

It was decided to take the riveted part of the cabin (back cabin and engine room) back to bare steel to avoid any problems in the future with old paintwork around the rivets on the cabin sides.

The front deck is now in primer as are the inside of the locker lids and drains.

The fore-end has been prepared and is also in primer.

And the primer is now on the sides...

Mick has been busy making a new wooden rear slide and slide runners and will be fitting them over the weekend.

Another update next week!

Until tomorrow,

Best regards, David.

Thefts from boats

Well what a horrible day it has been today, the morning started off grey and dark and it really felt like a day in the depths of the winter, Brrrrr and its gone really cold, stoking fires is probabnly the order of teh day for most people but not here as work still goes on, Richard as you know is in the final stages of the preparation work on Thea and is now starting to apply primer, as well as some finishing jobs on Ben Cruchan, that is the last boat he painted but it remained here while we did some major surgery in the engine room and no matter how careful people have been there is still some touching up to do, Lee docked a couple of boats this morning with Simon, one of them has got to have a new stern drive rubber boot fitted, not the normal sort of job that we do and we don't see many stern drives so that is something other than the 'norm' Lee then went in to the warm to help Richard do some painting, Simon showed a day boat out (must be mad in this weather) just the one out fortunately! Joyce has been doing eBay stuff and Ange has been catching up on paperwork!

As the title suggests we are starting to see a few thefts from boats, or hear about them, nothing new I know but it is worth mentioning the latest thefts!  I had an email this morning to say that a cratch cover has been stolen off a boat at Gailey and we had a diesel heater unit and an inverter stolen off a boat here at Norbury recently, without a shadow of a doubt this has to be a boater as these items would be of little use to anyone else, stay vigilant and make sure that your belongings are protected as best you can when your boat is left alone!

Regards
Simon