Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning

A very specific ‘beginning’ for the latest Weekly Photo Challenge:  the beginning of our dutch barge’s French adventure, back in the spring of 2008.

With wheelhouse dismantled and stored inside the boat, Desormais is lifted from the water at Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Safely hoisted onto the back of a low-loader, the transportation crew spend several hours securing and protecting their load. For a while now she will be a boat on a lorry on a boat crossing the English channel.

Two days later Desormais arrives at Joe Parfitt’s boatyard at Laroche-Migennes on the river Yonne in France…

…and negotiates the winding road to the water’s edge where we climb up to reassemble her wheelhouse.

The river is running fast and high after recent storms and Desormais is gingerly swung out over what seems to be a miniscule mooring spot.

In she goes. Ready now to start her journey, this time by water, to the Canal du Midi. The adventure is just beginning.

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