Thanks to Professional Pensions for this wonderful video of Lady Lucy. It’s first minute aren’t about pensions but about my boat so sorry Pension lovers, but this is just some lovely shots , mostly taken by drone of the boat at Hurley – half way between Henley and Maidenhead.

We are gong through our fourth hot spell of the summer and more boats are on the river than I have ever seen before! Sadly Lady Lucy is not on the river. That’s because I am not up to managing the weekends which were a feature for thousands who have been on this boat with me over the last 20 years.

It has been on the Peter Freebody website for sale at £95,000 for the last year and it has not had one offer in that time. The market is stagnant and that is because people like me are being advised to maintain prices at what we would have got coming out of Covid.

I am not going to wait around for nirvana to return. I put £300,000 into restoring the boat between 2002 and 2005 and a lot more in maintaining her since then and there seems to be a view among boat people that my boat is worth six figures.  It isn’t if people won’t pay that for it so from today the boat’s price has been dropped from £95,000 to £62,000.

That’s right;  £62,000

A formal offer should be to the Freebody’s at the contact details below. However, if you would like a conversation about the boat, please call me on 07785 37768 or mail me on henry.h.tapper@gmail.com , try me outside of working hours as I am hard at it still!

The boat will be yours on a wonderful mooring in Peter Freebody’s mill pond in Hurley. You can take it away or keep it there but you are assured it will get the tenderest care as Freebody boats do.

You can take her up to Oxford, though not past Oxford because of the height of its superstructure, you can go out to sea on it, she has many excursions abroad over the years. She was built for the sea in Chichester in the year after the second world war. Fable has it that Lady Lucy II was built to replace Lady Lucy I which was sunk in Dunkirk. There are still the paintwork for Lady Lucy II on its life saving rings!

But the boat is up to date and ready to be taken to the river. All inspections of the boat are via Peter Freebody’s boatyard