Ray Butler wrote: > Any doubts about Hurleston can be resolved by talking to the > locky before you go up, there are at least 2 Joshers > permanently based up there, a couple of ex GU boats, and some > friends of mine regularly travel up there with a Large > Woolwich, by dint of ascending the first few locks of > Hurleston backwards,
AFAIK Fulbourne (Large Woolwich) has always managed to get through Hurleston in a forwards direction, although on the last occasion I was there we were following a modern boat which did get stuck in its first attempt to enter the bottom lock, but eventually got in with some pushing and shoving. David Mack
