Date - 25/03/08 Day - Tuesday Start - 0900 End - 1730 Atherstone We the chap in the cruiser still had his outboard running when we went to bed last night so I am glad we moved along a bit. We set off this morning a 9 am in bright sun with no wind. Our first stop was The Ashby Boat Company for a pump out, we then continued to the junction of the Ashby and the Coventry canal, by now a cold breeze had picked up, but nothing like earlier in the trip. We turned right on the Coventry and on to Nuneaton where our boating friends Hazel and Peter happened to be looking out of there house window as we were passing, we had slowed incase they were in. Peter has built a jetty along the bottom of their garden, so we made fast and went in for a cupa and swap plans and past trips. We left them about half three and headed on to Atherstone. BW have done grand work along this stretch cutting down overhanging trees on both sides of the cut. We moored for the night just above the locks at about 5-30 pm. For those of you that have boated between Nuneaton and Atherstone may recall a basin pulled out on the left hand side with a narrowboat on it and not connected to the canal, the narrowboat has now been removed but there is still a piece of bank between the basin and the canal. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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