Date - 01/02/08 Day - Friday Start - Sunny Suffolk End - The Bridge, Napton
We left home mid morning and had a pleasant drive to Napton in bright sun shine with clear blue skys. The traffic on the A14 was unusually light which I put down to the fact that no lorries were landing at Harwich with the docks closed due to high winds. After refilling the water system, we always drain it when we leave the boat this time of the year, we set off to the Top Lock to load the boat from the car. After 2 locks we met a cruiser that had been moored up on the lock landing since before Christmas, it was being bow hauled by 5 lads and I understand it is subject to a section 8 notice that was stuck on it last week. I suppose that BW will have to find it again before they can take any action. A couple of locks later we met a single hander working his way up. Even meeting these two boats we still had to turn every lock as they now drain so quickly. There is a great deal of work going on on the house beside the bottom lock, It is being reroofed with windows being fitted and also repointed on the end by the lock. We pushed on in the sun but it was getting quite cool by now so we decided to moor at 4pm by The Bridge pub at Napton and we plane to eat here later. We set to doing a few jobs onboard and at 5 fed the dog but his after dinner walk was delayed slightly due to a blizzard going through. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
