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RIB is gone
Jun. 13th, 2026 08:15 pmToday I sold our RIB, Annic Nova, and her new owners (a family with four young kids) came to collect her. They had driven four hours on a hot day starting at 7am (with a baby!) and they didn't even want to give her a test run (I suppose it would have been difficult to do so safely, since I hadn't brought enough PFDs for four kids, and don't have anything suitable for a baby anyway).
Still, it felt like a lot of trust they gave me for all that money and effort from them, even though we had taken her out earlier in the week to get a bit of video at their request. Pp had fun whizzing around while I took some video from a pontoon. It was a bit too windy to comfortably go out to sea, which was a pity. I would have taken her out for one last run on Sunday if they hadn't been quite so keen to come pick her up.
She sold via Ebay in the end. I also advertised her on Facebook Marketplace, and on Apollo Duck (a specialist boat ad website). Apollo Duck was the most expensive, and the least effective place to advertise.
I'm kind of sad and relieved. It was an amazing thing to have a boat to run out to the islands, to float among the puffins and seals. She was very fast and very fun to drive, but she was also undeniably noisy, thirsty, and expensive.
I am hoping I may be able to go out in Mew the Mirror tomorrow: a much quieter, cheaper and slower kind of boating.
Still, it felt like a lot of trust they gave me for all that money and effort from them, even though we had taken her out earlier in the week to get a bit of video at their request. Pp had fun whizzing around while I took some video from a pontoon. It was a bit too windy to comfortably go out to sea, which was a pity. I would have taken her out for one last run on Sunday if they hadn't been quite so keen to come pick her up.
She sold via Ebay in the end. I also advertised her on Facebook Marketplace, and on Apollo Duck (a specialist boat ad website). Apollo Duck was the most expensive, and the least effective place to advertise.
I'm kind of sad and relieved. It was an amazing thing to have a boat to run out to the islands, to float among the puffins and seals. She was very fast and very fun to drive, but she was also undeniably noisy, thirsty, and expensive.
I am hoping I may be able to go out in Mew the Mirror tomorrow: a much quieter, cheaper and slower kind of boating.
