This year our boat was left in Roleans Boatyard. The yard is run by Majory Roleans, she helped her father run for many years and then took it over several years ago. She and her stepmother do all the work, welding, painting, turning up the odd propeller shaft and taking the boats in and out of the water. The equipment is all antiquated, and as one regular client said - “ I always take a walk when they take my boat out for the winter, it is too nerve raking to watch.”
Nothing has changed much since Dickens times and yet it somehow manages to function. We loved both the yard and Majory and stayed there nearly two weeks after arriving in Belgium.
I hope the following photographs capture some of the feeling for this wonderful place.
Lynda with guess who??
Does she look like a person who could rebuild a 5 litre boat motor?
Does she look like a person who could rebuild a 5 litre boat motor?
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