Date - 03/02/08 Day - Sunday Start - Braunston 1130 ish End - Newbold It stayed fine overnight and even warmed up a bit, no sign of ice on the towing path puddles this morning. A leisurely start chatting to other boaters and taking the dog for a walk and then into the show again. There was nothing else we wanted to see so we had coffee and said goodbye to our Ownership friends and headed off. It was a bit congested at the marina entrance. An Ownership boat that was taking people for a ride was coming out and a boat coming down also wanted to turn. He backed up and let me turn first and then he turned, by now a second Ownerships boat doing trips had returned and also wanted to get back in the marina. In the Braunston area someone has gone to a lot of trouble making a fine job of laying the hedge right up to Braunston Turn. We headed off up the North Oxford only meeting a couple of boats before Hillmorton where one was conveniently coming up the locks. There are a couple of bridges in very bad shape between Hillmorton and Braunston where BW have floated large buoys in the cut to keep boats to the towing path side. AS we locked down a second boat caught us up so I drew the paddles on the other lock for them. All the rest of the locks were empty so there must have been someone going down ahead of us. We have moored for the night at the end of the 48hr moorings just before Newbold Tunnel at 1600 hrs.
-- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
