KITTY'S PROGRESS

Kitty has now been named. The name Kitty was Susie's idea. She hand painted her name, the pussy cat picture and T/T Lady Cate on the stern.






 

Susie is a brilliant craftswoman who also makes great jewellery from beads and seeds.






  

Poor Kitty was getting badly scraped against the pontoon so I have fitted her with rubber rubbing strakes on the side and on the top of her gunwales.



  

Here she is back under Lady Cate's bow all the better for naming and her rubbing strakes.

KITTY HAS ARRIVED

I have had a need long in the gestation. Before travelling seriously Lady Cate has to have a tender, for going ashore when at anchor and who knows what other situations. I decided I'd also have the joy of a little local sailing. Swallows and Amazons revisited - both Peter Duck and Nancy Blackett are moored in the Deben.

So, after months of looking, I've bought Kitty from Andy Seedhouse. our local, long established, small boat merchant. Made in Lowestoft, she is an 8ft pram dinghy with a single sail lug rig.

Here she is, lying snuggled up to Lady Cate's bow.

And here she is being rigged.

 

 And now waiting for the wind.

Susie, Mick's American wife, will paint her name on soon. I must get some rubbing strake on her.