Gosh! Brian, That was a bit of hard reading without any paragraphs. I kept reading lines twice over with my new bionic eyes! ~Allan~
--- In [email protected], Brian <harn...@...> wrote: > > Date - 23 5 09 > Day - Saturday > Start - 10 30 Braunston > End - 1800 Ansty > > First job this morning was to back up through the bridge, past the boat > selling fenders and things to the water point to top up the tank. While we > were there Roy who we spent a bit of time with on the BCN last year wandered > past and stopped for a chat. We finally set off at about 10 30 and headed up > the North Oxford canal. There were a lot of boats about but we didn't meet > any in awkward places so had a good run to Hillmorton. One boat going into > the near side lock and one leaving the off side lock closing the gates behind > them even though there was a boat coming up. The back pumps were running flat > out putting an awkward current across the cut for boats trying to pull in to > the near side lock moorings. As the boat was coming up in our lock another > boat came behind us and got it completely wrong ending up on the offside. I > think they were a bit put out when I crossed in front of them to go into our > lock. It was very busy all the way down the flight, but nothing compared to > Rugby, there were goats going all ways and boats moored both sides all the > way round the bend didn't help. We plodded on slowly through until the road > bridge where I held back for a boat coming through the bridge but he then had > trouble getting round my stern as I couldn't go forward as another boat > followed through the bridge. We eventually sorted it to every ones > satisfaction and then as we passed the boats moored along the straight, still > with boats coming towards us the boat in front went aground, I had to stop > and promptly slid across the cut in the way of the oncoming boat. O the joys > of Bank Holiday boating. Once passed rugby things quieten down again. I have > never seen so many vacant visitor moorings at Newbold, it a shame we didn't > want to stop. As we cleared the tunnel I was aware of a boat catching me up. > We had to stop for a boat coming very slowly through the next bridge so I > invited him to pass me. I thought he would have waited until the oncoming > boat had gone, but I was wrong again so he passed me with a boat coming > towards us. About a mile later I caught up with a very slow boat and followed > them at tick over all the way to Rose Narrowboats where they pulled in at the > end of a weeks hire. After this we had the cut to our selves mooring for the > night at Ansty opposite The Rose and Crown where I have just booked a table > for this evening, we could eat now quarter past six or at eight pm. the place > was heaving. > > > > You will find our latest position at > http://tinyurl.com/Harnser-s-route > -- > Brian >
