We had originally been scheduled to launch around the 9th April, hence our placement on the hard standing in front of Grey Hippo who was scheduled for early May. However for whatever reason he changed his mind and wanted in earlier. That meant we would have to be moved to another spot prior to us launching.
I did try, and almost succeeded, in being ready for the same day Grey Hippo was going in but just couldn’t make it.
So for a couple of days we were moved just adjacent to the lifting bay to do the antifouling.
In the end we launched on the 18th March, about 3 weeks earlier than planned.
The upsides were we could start loading the boat a bit more leisurely than usual.
Normally you are allowed 5 days free in the water after launching but because we had been forced into launching earlier this wasn’t enforced and even in the end the marina didn’t charge for 4 days extra out with our contract on the day we left the marina.
