we woke to an overcast morning and a light breeze, so with the weather forecast predicting heavy rain and high winds late afternoon. We set off at 8.30.
I do really enjoy cruising on the Oxford canal more so in the winter with hardly any other boats moving in fact we only passed one other boat cruising all day the views are really wonderful now most of the tree's have lost their leaves. Winding around the very tight bends at times you seem to be going back from the direction you came from only to take another sweeping bend and your heading the right way again.
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| Twisty Oxford Canal |
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| Eddy Looking At His Lunch. |
Approaching Napton Top Lock the towpath grass and bushes had received its winter cut and all the grass cuttings were in the canal blocking the entry in to the lock which made getting into the lock very difficult but sharon done a fantastic job in getting in, but because of all the cuttings I had to make a visit down the weed hatch to clear a load of grass and twigs from the prop. The pound between the top lock and next lock was about 2 ft low so sharon took it really slowly round and we got in to the lock ok.
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| Napton Locks |
I called CRT and reported the that the bottom of the canal was to close to the top of the water and the problem seemed to be that the top gates leak like a sieve and so does the bottom gates of the same lock allowing the water to drain out of the pound through the lock and out in to the next pound. CRT said they would send someone out to have a look.
Going down the Napton locks we clocked up our 1000 mile and both reflected on how much we have seen this year and how many wonderful new friends we have met. We moored at Napton Bridge and had just but the kettle on when the skies opened and the wind picked up, it stayed wet and windy all through the night.
Friday we woke to a completely different day blue skies and no wind so we set off at 9.30 for the cruise up to Braunston. A really lovely cruise wonderful sights and today we passed 2 other boats that were also cruising.
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| Blue Skies Towards Braunston |
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| Napton Narrowboats At The End Of The Season |
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| Braunston Church |
Time Travelled Thursday 6 Hrs, Distance Travelled 10.5 Miles 9 Locks
Time Travelled Friday 2.5 Hrs Distance Distance Travelled 6.5 Miles
Total Distance Travelled 1016.5. Miles
Total Tunnel length 10957 yards
Total Time 542. hours
Total Time 542. hours
We Are Loving It so Much
Happy Birthday Old Boy and well done all 3 of you completing 1000 miles.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, had a great day all round.
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