We purchased Janna in April 2007 with the intention to
move our home from our narrow boat Draco to her after a partial refit. Janna is
still berthed on a drying tidal mooring at Swale Marina, Conyer, Teynham, Nr.
Sittingbourne. I am trying to research her history and so far can only confirm
that she was built in Alkmaar, Holland circa 1925. She was not originally named
Janna, this naming came from the owner who had her converted from a cargo
vessel to a residential boat in the early 1950's. The previous name we have not
yet found out, Janna (pronounced yanna) was the name of the 1950's
owner's aunt.
Dateline April 2008: we 'escaped' from Swale Marina and will be continuously cruising the non-tidal Thames for the majority of the rest of the year.
I started the partial refit during June 2007 after I
took early retirement from NATS and it is to all intents-and-purposes now
completed. There are some changes planned for the Master's bedroom (our bedroom
and the only fixed sleeping accommodation in our plans) during this year and
Krystyna's studio has now turned into a storage cabin for her arts and craft
materials, Krystyna using the rest of the boat as her work area! We still have
some general tidying up to do and of course the ongoing internal and external
decoration - planned colour chages for outside!
The main refit consisted
of the following (the links will take you to separate pages with before and
after pictures, etc):
- minor layout changes and new floor covering in the saloon
- various internal cosmetic improvements and external repaint in new colours (Krystyna's artistic influence here of course - work in progress)
Another change to our original plans ( like all plans - especially mine - they are always up for change!) is that we still have our narrow boat Draco, which we shall be moving down here to us on the Thames this year.
Last updated 8th May 2009
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