Monday, September 29, 2014

Linslade



Monday 29 September 2014 – Linslade, Grand Union Canal
I stayed at Fenny Stratford and this morning had a late start.  No excitement like Saturday just a run to here with locks at Stoke Hammond (which has to be left empty), the Soulbury Three (the pub was having its sewage system overhauled and was a bit smelly – just like a pump-out) and Leighton to break the journey.
I moored on the Tesco moorings (2 hours only) but the visitor moorings were occupied by one of the Hotel widebeam boats so after a brief trip into town I continued to the moorings after bridge 114.  I managed to get a mooring chain between two of the rails along the bank for the stern but the one for the bow went in then coiled up on itself.  Fortunately there was a rope loop I could fix to but was unable to remove the bow chain in spite of a couple of hours pulling which did free some of the links.

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