In my last blog I described the problem associated having Pachuca in a 10m pen masquerading in a 12m pen.
On Tuesday morning I spoke with Karen, the manager of PGM, by telephone and obtained her confirmation that pen F130 had been vacated and was ready for my boat. On Wednesday I drove to Busselton and settled into the boat for the night under the plan that Peter would arrive at noon the next day when we would have lunch then move the boat in the afternoon. Before dark I visited pen F130 an found a large cabin cruiser occupying the pen.
The next morning I visited the PGM office and was told that there had been a last minute decision to move another boat into pen F130 and Pachuca would occupy the adjacent pen F129. I asked why I had not been informed of the change and Karen replied that they had phoned me several times the previous day with no response. This did not make sense to me so I asked her to read out the telephone number that she had used. She then read out the number and the last digit was incorrect. That explained the miscommunication and she corrected her record. Karen's explanation for the last minute change was that Kerry had forgotten that pen F130 had been promised to somebody else.
The change of pen was not a big practical issue: Pachuca is now in pen F129 and instead of having the side jetty on my starboard side I will now have it on my port side.
At about 10am I was preparing for Peter's arrival when I received a telephone call from Nigel, who had the pen next to Pachuca. He asked if he could help me move my boat out immediately because he needed to move his boat to my vacant pen for a few days in order to do some work on the starboard side of his cabin cruiser. I agreed to make the move with the suggestion that we get Rick who is on the PGM staff to help us. In fact Rick was already on his way to my boat. It was just as well that I had checked out the engine and made other preparations for the move first thing in the morning because I now was working with only a few minutes of notice. Nigel accompanied me aboard Pachuca while Nigel waited at pen F129 to take our lines, and we completed the move without much trouble.
Peter arrived just before noon, and by then he knew that the boat would be in her new pen by the time he arrived. After a chat on Pachuca he drove us to Busselton where we had lunch at the Dome cafe. After lunch we put in several hours of work, mainly tying the lines to our satisfaction. At 4PM the boat was safely in her new home and Peter went on to visit his mother in Busselton and headed for home in Darlington.
Pachuca is now in a much better position, with her bow facing the SW and directly into the strongest winds from stormy weather and the side jetty long enough to provide a better angle for the stern mooring line.
I will coordinate my next visit with Bruce, who has offered to apply his rope splicing skills to fitting the pen with proper white polypropylene dock lines.
Zoom the photo to see the stern line and a springer from the outermost cleat
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