Narrowboat

Day 8, May 10th 2008, on the River Avon
We Set off from our moorings at Craycombe Turn, which are in themselves great unless you need somewhere with supplies or even a nearby pub, on another sunny morning. This is a nice rural section of the river, which keeps itself to itself. After a while we [...]

We spent the morning around Tewkesbury before setting off back up the Avon just after 11:30. We first stopped for pump-out and fuel, mooring next to a guy cleaning his boat (looks better speeded up!), since places to do this further on are limited. Also speed upstream can be limited by strong flows in [...]

I am currently afloat and so using a phone to post this (a qwerty WM6 device). We arrived on the boat on Sunday evening and set off to Braunston. We got up early and set off up the Oxford - the canal was busy with at least six boats in front of us. So [...]

We are due out on Silhouette next week and were initially thinking of going down the South Oxford for the week, but things change. We are now going for just 5 days and whilst we could get down to below Banbury and back, another alternative is to go up the Ashby Canal.
We have been along [...]

Today was to be a short cruise - one of the crew had toothache and the only dentist we could get an appointment at was Tewkesbury, so we didn’t set off until lunchtime. It had been a fine and sunny morning and this continued into the afternoon, nice day to be messing around on the [...]