Well after yesterdays rain and a crystal clear night with loads of stars we woke to sunshine but a cool breeze. At 6am this morning the outside temperature was down to 6°C much more inline with what it should be. If you read the comments on yesterdays blog you will see that Paul quite rightly pointed out there are 3 pairs of lock gate plus the single gated stop that we passed through yesterday on this canal, I don’t expect I will be boating long enough to take our boat through those locks.
We were away at ten with more boats on the move today in the sun than yesterday in the rain, we stopped at Ashby Boats to top up with diesel before carrying on our way.
We stopped at mid day almost opposite the Triumph factory, firstly for lunch, but more importantly i painted some of the internal paint work ready for when I fit then new carpet. Once that was sorted we were off again, we were going to stop for water at the A5 but a chap was just leaving the long term moorings to reverse down to the water point so we left it for him, however we did stop very briefly to photograph the sign about the rubbish disposal.
We carried on for another hour and a quarter mooring opposite the long term moorings at Burton Hastings fishing lakes. For some reason there are only 6 boats moored here at the moment so I don’t know what is happening to them.
Today’s Journey
8¼ miles, no locks in 3¼ hours
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