Day - Monday
Start - Somerton deepcut bridge
End - bottom Claydon Locks
Yesterday evening we heard a splash, a young bullock had fallen off the
wall into the cut and was well up his body in water. I went to where he
was and grabbed him by the lugs but was unable to hold him and he
started to swim along the cut where the water was deeper and there was
steel edge, another boater came with his mooring rope but the animal
turned and swam quite fast back in the direction he had come from. I had
already looked for an alternative and I knew the bank was broken down to
water level a bit further along in the next field, however before we got
that far the bullock managed to get his foot on some fallen masonry in
the cut and this gave him enough purchase to get his forefeet on the
bank and drag himself out.
The sun was nice this morning but there was a cool breeze, we set off a
little after 9 20 to go and see Ian at Aynho Wharf. We have decided to
have Harnser repainted and we know people who had their boat painted by
him over 5 years ago. After a bit of chat we agreed to take it back to
him in February next year for a month, so hopefully we will have it back
in time to go to next years Basingstoke rally at Easter. After an
ice cream we pushed off to continue our journey home. we had only seen 4
boats until now, the reason became clear at Kings Sutton lock which was
turned as we approached. A couple with an ex BW maintenance boat had
come down in the lock, he then turned it to lock down two more
maintenance boats that he had probably bought at the recent BW auction.
He then set off with all three boats close coupled at about 2 miles a
hour, when we locked up there were 4 boats waiting to come down behind
him and we continued meeting boats all the way to Banbury.
At Banbury I parted with £100 in return for a tank of diesel at Sovereign
Narrowboats, I asked if he gave discount for quantity but no luck. As we
left him to boats pulled away from the tow path side in front of us.
they were both travelling together, both single handed and both ladies
with young children. One was an experienced boater but the other had
only had the boat 2 weeks and it wasn't small and light so she had to
work at it. We followed and helped them through locks until they both
moored just before Cropredy, we carried on to moor just below the
Claydon flight for the night at about 8-30
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Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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