Date - 6 May 07 Day - Sunday Start - 1015 Allen's Lock End - Cropredy 1800 We had a good nights sleep and didn't set off until quarter past ten, several boats had gone by and we went between two day boats from Oxford Cruisers at Upper Heyford. The canal was quite busy and we followed the day boat all the way to Nell's Bridge lock where they winded at 1 o'clock to head back to the yard. We saw a lot of Kingsground boats about, about half of them out of Enslow but the others from further afield. Banbury was quite busy with only a few moorings left in the town. The dredging of the long term moorings is complete and the boats have started moving back to their old moorings. We shouted hello to Simon on "Nene Pilot" as we passed. At Hardwick Lock we met "nb.Otter" they were leaving the lock as we arrived, they said that "nb. Gillaroo" was following so we were going to leave the top gates open for them but there was a boat right behind us. It was just as well we didn't leave the gates as we actually met them about to enter Bourton Lock. The boat following caught us up, they were moving it for a friend who had just bought it to its new mooring at Ventner Farm. It seamed they were unaware of the problems at the new marina and were expecting to straight onto their berth tomorrow. We decided to stop at Cropredy for the night but it was absolutely solid, just like when the music festival is on, the first place we could find to moor was above the lock and then through the old removed lift bridge by a good hundred yards. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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