Date - 4 Oct 06 Day - Wednesday Start - Snarestone Tunnel End End - 1800 hr Marston Jabbett
Last night we ate at the Globe just above the tunnel, This was very good value for money, we had two main courses, two sweets and three pints of Pedigree all for just a few pence over £26 and was all very tasty with good service. I place I would recommend. This morning I had to reset the dog's alarm clock at 6.30 AM. as I had no intention in getting up at that time of the day. By the time we were ready to leave at 10 o'clock several boats had passed in both directions and lots of the boats ahead of us had left. We gave the last boat to leave a good 10 minuets start before we set off but we soon caught them up and then averaged 2 mph for the rest of the morning until they moored at Market Bosworth visitor moorings. We passed them and then stopped to fill with water. The afternoon saw us travelling at a better rate of knots until we caught up with a Black Prince hire boat just past Trinity Marina. The chap steering was more interested in talking on his mobile phone than driving the boat. He speed up slightly after passing the moored boats with his foot and wobbled all over the cut, we must have followed him for well over 1/4 before he suddenly went astern, pulled close to the bank and then shot below, the boat still drifting forward along the bank. As we started to pass he came out and put the boat back in gear to pull away again, I think it was at this point he realised that we were there. He then jumped off with a boat hook, walked to the front of the boat by the handrail with his boat hook and acknowledged us passing before getting back to his phone. The boat then drifted out of his grasp so he walked to the stern and hooked that end, still on the phone with the bow in the bushes on the off side he climbed back on board to sort things out. At this point we lost sight of him as we rounded the next bend. From here we carried on to between bridges 3 and 2 to moor for the night and eating on board, about 10 minutes later or friend on his Black Prince boat came passed. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit my Web site at http://www.harnser.info Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
