Last night we ate with Graham and Brenda at The Boat in, they were quite busy but fitted us in.
A very late start today as I spent the morning looking for a high resistance electrical connection on the horn circuit, found a couple of doubtful points with a crimp and the multiplug on the main loom. As I had to power off we had no bread for lunch so it was a trip to Annie’s tea rooms. We finally got away sometime after 2pm, unfortunately after a coupe of hire boats had come by, so every lock was against us and we only met one boat all afternoon. The Highwayman at Kidlington looks as if its been spruced up since we last visited, its right adjacent to the canal and the A4260 road bridge, The bridge is an interesting construction.
Later we passed a boat that has had a stretch job, I wonder what length its registered as wit CRT, there was also a push hull on the bows.
A few years ago this accommodation bridge which had fallen down was replaced with a wooden foot bridge, I hadn’t noticed before that unlike most wooden foot bridges the deck is not flat.
Down below Dukes Cut we passed this rather sad sight of a sunken boat, it looks as if some was well into rebuilding it, we also uncounted a hydraulically
There is some really nice art work in some of the bridges as you run in towards Oxford. I will get a few more shots on our return.
Mooring is quite tight in Oxford we we slipped into the first one we came across at Aristotle Lane, Prior to her all the time limit signs have been removed from the posts and quite a few boats now also moor
on the offside. One thing we didn’t witness was people moored on water points and lock landings unlike some places where mooring is tight.
Todays Journey
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