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 

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