Thanks Mike for leaving a comment on yesterdays Blog , you are of course right and last night I could only think of the Norfolk name Crome https://www.yourdictionary.com/crome, the name Keb, as used on the canals completely escaped me.
We were all set to get going at 10am this morning and it started to rain so we stayed put a little longer finally leaving at quarter to eleven, I still need a coat on after a short time as we have had short showers all day. Our luck was in and we met a boat about half a mile below the locks so when we arrived every chamber was empty, just a matter of walking ahead and opening bottom gates before we enter. The whole flight took us just on an hour as I photographed the old BWB signs at both the bottom and the top of the flight I knew how long the assent took. This resulted in todays cruise being much shorter than planned at just 2 hours, not enough to recharge the batteries.
2 comments:
I assumed the staircases on the original route formed a bottleneck when the canal was busy. Having one less lock on the new alignment probably saved another few minutes too.
Hi Brian and Diana, I see you moored last night at Leys junction and I seem to remember you've done that before so I assume it's safe and not too noisy. Whereabouts do you moor, is it up the branch or on the main line? We may be going that way in a week or two
Debby
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