Thursday 13 Oct 2011
Grand Union Canal south of Springwell lock. Last night a boat moored near me with another ‘breasted up’ (tied alongside) that looked like a garden with lawn, shrubs etc then I noticed that in the middle was a hawk on a tree stump the owner said he had bought the second boat just for somewhere to put the bird, and yes, he added that he hunted with the hawk. As I set out at 08:20 there was light rain but this had stopped by the time I got to Black Jack’s lock and the sun was out by Widewater lock. There is then a long straight run to Denham Deep lock (about a mile and a half) and from here on seemed to be moored boats along both sides of the canal. At Uxbridge lock there was assistance from a lady waiting at the bridge – no boat but she did have her windlass with her. And at Cowley lock more help, this time from a holiday crew who were heading for the ‘Malt Shovel’ pub. They seemed to enjoy working the lock, they were certainly enthusiastic. Then on to Packet Boat Marina and after booking in with Reception I did a pump-out before going to my winter mooring.
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