Day - Monday
Start - Lowsenford
End - Cape of Good Hope, Warwick.
We woke to torrential rain and heard Dave on "Willy Noname" slip his
moorings at 8 o'clock time whilst the rain was at its heaviest. By the
time we were about the rain had stopped and the sun was breaking through.
We set of at 9 30 AM in drizzle which rapidly turned to rain and then
heavy rain which continued until after lunch. Yet again we timed our
departure well, meeting a boat at the first lock and as they had set off
at 7-30 all the locks as far as number 25 were in our favour where they
must have passed Dave and Jane. We didn't see another boat on the move
until we approached Hatton locks where we met two. We hoped that this
would mean the Hatton flight would be with us, but first we were
stopping for a bite of lunch. Just as we pulled in we met another boat
who was just going up to wind and then heading part way down the flight
if we cared to join him. We ate lunch and as he returned we pulled out
behind him and followed him to the locks, but we had been had, twice,
firstly the locks were all against us and secondly he was a single
hander, so we gained nothing. By the second lock the rain had stopped
and at the third lock we left our new partner at Steven Goldsborough's
dry dock. We continued on for a couple more locks when we met a boat
coming up the flight, he in turn was followed by two more, so now the
locks were with us again. We were well beyond half way when we
encountered the locks against us and this continued to the bottom of the
flight. BW still had a boat moored just below the top lock and a tug and
mud hopper just above the bottom lock. It looks as if they are relaying
the towpath in front of the houses below the bottom lock. We carried on
to Cape locks where we filled with water and have moored for the night
with a view to eating at the Cape of Good Hope.
--
Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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