Today was all about Erbas
After breakfast on board, we set off by car to Tollesbury grabbing coffee to go before sitting down in the brokers office to sort out the paperwork.
Apart from the formal bill of sale, we also received a folder full of paperwork going back through several previous owners with bills of sale, the paperwork relating to her transfer from the Part I to the Part III register of shipping, that rare and almost mythical beast a certified C88 VAT form and so on
With the formalities complete, Erbas was officially ours and we took possession of the keys (albeit temporarily as the yard needs them in case we're not around when she's launched)
On board, we did a bit of locker diving and discussed things we need and don't need until we were hailed by the former owner Nic who came aboard with some info and more useful tips about the systems. We arranged to call by his house a little later to pick up some gear from his shed too.
After lunch in the club, we headed up into the village to Nic and Linda's where we collected the gear for lowering and stowing the mast, various tins of paint and a box of what can best be described as useful odds and sods
Over coffee, we perused the various spreadsheets and drawing files on Nic's laptop and decided what would be useful to us before taking our leave and heading back to the boat - the new boat that is!
Back aboard, I gathered together all the files and paperwork to take home to be copied and sorted. We'll need to carry originals of most things on the off chance we're asked to produce them when we venture into continental waters but I want hard and electronic copies of the whole lot safe ashore
As the chandlery and office shuts at four on a Saturday, that curtailed our time aboard on this occasion. We could happily have dozed off in the saloon and stayed the night!
Back we drove to Fambridge via Tesco Maldon for a not very good dinner of tinned stew (shan't buy that brand again) before heading to the pub for beers.
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