Brian wrote: > Date - 27 July 09 > Day - Monday > Start - Thrupp 0900 > End - Somerton Meadow 1615 hrs > > Just after we moored up last night it started to rain and it was > still raining when we left this morning. We pushed off just after 9 > am and I have never seen this end of the Oxford so busy, at > Northbrook Lock we were fourth in the queue for the lock and we must > have met over 20 boats by then and we continued queuing for the rest > of the day. The rain stopped about half ten but then we had odd > showers for the rest of the day with very hot sunny spells in > between. We pushed on longer than intended as we couldn't find a nice > spot to moor, finally mooring by the Meadow at Somerton. Since we > have been here several boats have been by including one from > Oxfordshire Narrowboats who had a breaking was behind him. The chap > behind shouted at him and he throttled back immediately, but still > pulled the pins on the boat ahead of us and dragged our piling hook > almost into the next indent, it was only recovered by the use of a > lump hammer. > > You will find our latest position at > http://tinyurl.com/Harnser-s-route
I dunno if I could ever handle this amount of traffic again. Last time out on the Grand Canal we saw THREE!!!! narrowboats moving in a day. That was busy, normally we are lucky to see one boat moving in a week. -- Neil Arlidge NB Erne-west TNC...Going far west... http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
