I purchased The Pendragon one Saturday in October 2009, the very next day I travelled up the Wigan Flight for 7 long hours.
Foolishly with no knowledge of a canal boat I assumed the most important job was to have the hull blackened. So off I went...
Luckily a number of friends decided to help, one of them had been on a hire boat, once, for about an hour !!! Thus Ann was deemed our expert on the trip...
All was going well, until right outside the BW's office in Wigan we went aground... No water, plenty of bikes chairs bits of fencing and the odd body but alas no water.
Just when I was beginning to come to terms with spending the rest of my boating life stuck outside the BW's office, help came, and so did the water.
The boat yard informed me that the hull had been re-plated. I never bothered with a boat survey, come to think of it I didn't know you could have a boat survey. I was also told the boat had no anodes, trying to act knowledgeable about such matters I asked them to fit them and what colour they came in.... Next was a new battery, A 75 came with the boat but I would need at least 110..... Having no idea they could fit such a large battery into the engine room, thinking that in some way this was related to size I also agreed as being a good idea.
Out of the water and in the safe hands of the boat yard, the Pendragon was safe for the time being.
