Day 7 - 24 August 2007 Little Thetford to St Ives It was still a little windy in the morning, but had dropped considerably during the night. We left the mooring, and soon was upon the shallow and slow bit to Earith Sluice. We kept to the 4 mph speed limit, in fact sometimes it was impossible to reach that, but a couple of plastic boats coming the other were flying along with a massive wash following behind.
At Earith we pulled into the marina to fill up with fuel (55ppl), and on leaving shared the lock with another boat. We just squeezed in, with our bow on the top gate, as the lock itself is only about 12 foot wide. We stopped for water at the EA moorings/pontoon, and noticed it had a free pump out as well. The other boat stopped here as well, and looks like they wanted water also. It wasn't long before we were full, and had a good run upto St Ives. We were straight into the two locks, and had them worked for us by EA staff. The EA bloke at Brownshill Staunch was worried about getting everyone through St Ives lock as it took a quarter of an hour to turn around. We left the lock at 5pm, and once through the bridge mooring 1D4 was come upon very quickly. Just passed the fun fair it was the closest we've ever been to a national – it was also one of the noisiest. We went to the Waterspace office – which was sign posted the long way around the site, and it was then that we found out just how muddy it was. It was impossible to get to the office without going through some mud, but we realised on the way back we could get along the stone road and walk along the river front. For a change the plaque was quite good, and actually showed the location nicely. -- 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/
