A nice quiet night last night and we were away a little before ten this morning. Very few boats moored in Rugby when we got there but we had met a few boats, so could have been them.
We arrived at Hillmorton earlier than I expected and there were only three boats waiting below the locks, 2 had just entered to go up and 2 down so it was a bit chaotic just below the lock mouth. Us and the boat behind us waited at the water point for things to clear out, only moving up as the last 2 boats were going into the locks. There was a Volockie on each of the tree pairs of locks all in radio contact so things were moving quite swiftly. The back pumps up the flight were still running at full capacity and I would estimate the level of the Braunston pound to be slightly down on last week, but only marginally.
This weeks photo showing the backpump level |
We had hoped to moor just before bridge 75 where there is a short length of piling, but there was already a boat there. This is probably the quietest spot until you get the other side of Braunston, so we had to continue south. We passed our marina, we were now in the middle of a convoy or 6 boats having caught up with a very slow hire boat. We pulled in at the first reasonable bit of bank between bridges 78 and 79, but as we ate dinner we felt the traffic on the motorway a bit noisy, so after lunch moved on for about mile and three quarters to the north edge of Willoughby and moored up there in the silt.
Today’s Journey
8¾ Miles with 3 locks in 4 hours
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