Day 21 Thursday 26 July 2007 Evesham to Stratford 11:34 to 19:38 We didn't leave until late today to give them more chance to sort out the Evesham lock. When we arrived at the lock the dredger was in the chamber, and the tug was ready on the moorings below. The narrowboat on the bottom gate beam was moved off, and the bottom paddle working again. They locked the tug through next, and then we took our boat through. They were going to go up the river with the work boat to sort out problems with a lock further up.
We left in front of the dredger, and arrived at the next lock at 1:34pm. We stopped above it for lunch, and just about 2:05pm the dredger arrived after some serious noise, we heard them coming for over quarter of an hour! We had a good, but slow at times run up the river. At Billington lock we had trouble shutting the top gate – it was silted up, but with some lock flushing we got the gates closed enough. We heard about a sunk narrowboat further up the river near a lock, but it was just on the bottom lock moorings at Cadbury Lock. It was a slow run to that lock as the river is very narrow, and the main channel winds back and forth through the main river cut. We had heard from someone that a tree was blocking the bridge at Welford. When we arrived, we could see that a tree some minor distance from the bridge had fallen blocking the direct way to bridge, we went around the tree, but as the bow entered the main flow through the bridge hole I could not get the back around quick enough and the bow went flying towards the bridge. It glanced off, it sounded worse than it was as nothing moved inside. The next "problem" was a tree across a lock at Stratford. Again this was an exaggeration, and we squeezed by the trees (one above, and one below the lock). When we reached Barge Lock the gates were open, and so could go straight in. It wasn't long before we were moored up, although again there was a tree in the view of "Sky", and so we turned the boat around. The boat in the bridge has been moved, and so tomorrow after doing some shopping we will be heading north. -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/ 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/
