It was another calm and misty start to the day. At least the temperature was higher than yesterday. One of the boaters on the 48 hour moorings stopped to talk to Jan and mentioned he had been on the moorings for the last month waiting for conditions to improve before heading to Reading. I can understand a nervous boater not wanting to leave until they were happy with the conditions. But on the 48 hour visitor moorings?
Below the lock worked awaited.
We departed Kintbury around 9.30am and made good progress towards Newbury in the calm conditions. A few boats had similar ideas and at two of the five locks we were fortunate to meet boats coming in the opposite direction.
After four hours of steady cruising we arrived at Newbury around 1:30pm and moored above Newbury Lock where we’ll spend the night.
2 comments :
The first photo of the wide beam boat is most revealing.
It looks like your centre rope is just thrown in a heap rather than being passed along the roof to keep the end near the stern so the steerer can step off in a dignified manner while holding the end of the rope to hold the boat on the centre line with no possibility of the boat floating away while you scrabble along the gunwales or towpath to grab the rope in an unseemly rush.
Perhaps it’s just an illusion caused by the camera.
Paul,
The rope was placed there by Jan when she used it to moor on the water point. Not guilty!
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