In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rhonda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Thanks Jane! Nice to get some positive feedback!
Hi Rhonda I hope you'll have a great trip. I assume from your itinerary that you're hiring from Kate Boats. Which of their boats have you booked? I moor at the other end of the Stockton flight at Warwickshire Fly Boats yard so you'll be passing nb Virgo on the last leg of your return to Stockton Top marina. When I returned to boating after 20odd years I hired Dorothy Constance and single-handed to Stratford and back from their other base in Warwick. WRT some of the comments in the other thread - I can see from your OP that you're by no means first-timers, even so 11 hour days in October is IMHO quite challenging ( at least it would be for me these days!) though you're avoiding the school half term holiday so there shouldn't be too many boats about. To be honest it wouldn't be the day length that would bother me as much as the need to keep going even if it's chucking rain down in stair rods. I once did the Aylesbury Arm in a thunderstorm but that was 30 years ago. The other thing you need to know about this list and uk.rec.waterways is that thread drift is an essential part of the way we chat! The fact that people have started talikg about inexperienced Canaltime hirers doesn't mean they see you in the same light:-)} Anyway, as I said, we moor at the bottom of the flight. I'm never quite sure when I'll be on the boat as I work away mid-week most weeks in the autumn, but if I'm here and you fancy a pint at the Blue Lias before you set off then drop me an email nearer the time. Cheers Guy -- Guy Morgan nb Virgo, WFB, Stockton GU Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
