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The Lady that was beached is back on the water where she belongs!

Last Friday showed me what 8 men can accomplish with just a few lumps of wood, odd lengths of rope, plenty of determintaion, ingenuity.....and a Manitou fork lift!



When we arrived at the beach at Ardentrive with a our lumps of wood, some rope, and a two ton trolley jack, I must admit I had severe doubts that we would be making any impact on the Lady as she lay perched on the grass, at least 30 feet from the high water mark. I'd been told that we were getting assistance from a tractor and a forklift, but my mental image of a forklift is one of those little orange buggies used in factories and supermarkets to shift crates of baked beans, and I couldn't see how one of those was going to make it onto the beach in the first place, let alone have any effect on many tons of well beached ferry. It seemed to me that the Lady's brief holiday was set to last a little longer....but I was wrong!