Saturday, April 18, 2009

The new boat and a broken trailer winch


Yesterday morning at 6.00 AM and after 2 days of preparation we started the last trip with our old boat. We drove to Motala on the north eastern shore of the Lake "Vättern" to the boat dealer to exchange it against a new one. The trip went well also the handing over. As we were going to start our journey back to Mossen, we had to note that on our new Brenderup trailer, "Made in Denmark" a broken trailer winch, "Made in GB" had been installed. So the boat had to be fixed with some tie straps and we had to drive to Jonköping on the south tip of Vättern to the Thule factory to pay 1000 SEK to get a new one. The warranty has to be claimed with the dealer in Germany. So much about an united "European Market".
From Jonköping we went to Tibro, which we had passed already in the morning to do some shopping for fishing tackle and to complete the unplanned rounding of lake Vättern with a boat in the tie!
At 8.30 PM we arrived in Mossen having driven another 740 km and still no fish caught.
The next 2 days will be busy with fixing all the electronic and fishing stuff to the boat.

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