BN Splashes

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 4 Dec 2014 23:57
Beez Neez Gets Her Feet Wet – At Long Last
 
 
 
 
 
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Having watched the lift chug busily around the yard for many a week, it was finally coming for us at ten thirty. We watched as Pete expertly wended his way, turned right parallel to us and turned right by the bulldozer.
 
 
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Pete lined up, Mo went to work on the props.
 
 
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Bear in usual ‘watchful stance’. Mo posting the strop under the girl.
 
 
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A rare giggle from Mo.
 
 
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Padding in, I get to admire all the various lifts and pulleys. Tiny clearance at the front.
 
 
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Avid concentration, final checks and finally the subtle thumb signal from this gentle giant.
 
 
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Up she goes.
 
 
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Off she goes.
 
 
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The first leg.
 
 
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The second leg.
 
 
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The three point turn.
 
 
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Time for us to climb aboard, our launch engineer ready to join us – there to check that as Beez touched the water the new stern drive seal didn’t leak and that when I fired her up all was well. Once on board we all trundled back over the water and Pete gently lowered us. No leak, thumbs up. I held the key over one click things illuminated, counted to eight, turned the key the rest of the way and nothing. She made the correct purr but nothing caught so no power. Nadda, nunca, zip zero. Engineer calling from below to try, stop, try, rummaging an fiddling, try, nope. Nothing for it but to have all the boys pull Beez by hand to the ‘sick dock’ some fifteen feet to our left, me actually helping a tiny bit with the the fully functioning bow thruster. How bitterly disappointing and embarrassing for the girl. She took it like a lady but has never had this indignity befall her before just now.
 
 
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The next boat entering the lift slip. Mo off to the next job. Our engineer gives up, clearly reinforcements are required.
 
 
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Beez Neez on ‘Sick Dock’. We had made it all of thirty feet, me helping a little with the fully operational bow thruster and the boys pulling us from the lift slip to the dock. Engineers worked all afternoon, gunk had been found in the injectors. Not a happy girl but assured all things would come to pass in the next day or so........
 
 
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Goodnight.
 
 
 
 
 
 
ALL IN ALL BRILLIANT START AND FLAT END
                     WATER AT LAST WITH A MINOR HICCOUGH