Go For It Goes South

For the last year Richard and I have been planning to take our Southerly 110 sailing yacht to the Mediterranean.  The weather in northern Europe had convinced us that sailing in southern waters was to be desired.

The original plan was to take the boat to the boatyard where it was built, Northshore Yachts in Itchenor, to have its usual yearly maintenance and get some other repairs and improvements made for the trip south.  So on a very cold and blowy day in early April we took the boat from Gosport to Itchenor for the work to be done.  The plan was that the work would take 2-3 weeks, which would then give us a couple of weeks to use the boat and make sure everything was working well.

But the best laid plans of men go awry and certainly ours did.  After ten days at Itchenor we decided to go and see how things were getting on only to find that Northshore Yachts had gone in to liquidation.  So to make a long boring story short, that caused so many delays and difficulties that we lost hope in getting away in May at all.  But on Tuesday 14^th May the boatyard rang us to say all the work was done and we were on!  So excitedly we threw our last few things in cases and got ready to go on Wednesday.

Then the idea of this blog came to the fore.  A number of friends have suggested we do a blog to show how we get on taking our old lady Go For It (and old lady me) south.