Its AGM day today and some radical decisions have been made. Firstly we had a meeting at Olympus Narrowboats to check out the new paint job. Its not finished yet, but progress is being made and should be finished by Wednesday. So far it all looks good and the paint has a deep lustre and thickness which makes it look rich. All that's left to do is the black gunwales, red handrails and panel coachlines.
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| The green is a shade darker |
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| Looks good here, even better to touch it |
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| Name plates ready for "Tranquility" and "No. 8" with the Swan insignia |
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| The cream is non slip |
Then we had the AGM where the big decision is that we're going "self management". The meeting lasted more than two and a half hours, and I think most people are happy, although the voting was not unanimous. It all seems a little bit daunting at this stage but Artie from Carefree says he will help us all he can with the transfer and if it all goes belly up, he'll have us back in an instant. I think he didn't want us to feel that we'd burned our bridges. The transition will take several months and Artie says he'll guide us all the way. There is one thing we're going to learn about from this and that's all the wheeling and dealing that goes on in the background and the planning, finance and maintenance. One thing on our side is that we have all the skills in the syndicate to do it. So here we go head long into a new era with TQ.
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