Tuesday 13 May 2014 – Stoke
Bruerne, Grand Union Canal
A mixed day, woke to the drumming of rain on the roof, which stopped by
08:30 when the sun came out, so I decided to move off. At the Cosgrove lock there was a single boat
coming down with another two more waiting so I was through quickly. The journey was pleasant in the sunshine but
was decidedly chilly in the cloudy bits as well as there being some fairly
heavy ‘showers’. At the Taveners
moorings I saw a boat called ‘Marmite’ but it was not the Braidbar one.
When I got to the Stoke Bruerne bottom lock (number 20) I took the
opportunity to hose down the boat trying to remove the leaves and stuff from
being under trees at Milton Keynes. This
was done in one of the downpours. When I
had filled the lock I saw a Wyvern hire boat approaching so waited for them in
the next lock. Just after we had gone
through lock 18 some C&RT staff went into it and asked us to tell boats
approaching that they were doing repairs and there would be up to 60 minutes
delay. There was a steady stream of
boats going down.
Now that the sun is out and the sky looks blue I have moored up - just
before the Blisworth Tunnel which will be tomorrow’s start.
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