Category: Boat life
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Final Push
Emily had gone home after a few days of birthday activities. Joey was on the boat to help me now until we reached Milton Keynes. Alan had to work so wasn’t with us for most of the end. We are at Cowroast and decending toward Milton Keynes. There are 24 locks and about 24 miles…
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Rickmansworth to Hemel Hempstead
While Alan was working for a few days Emily joined me for cruising for two days before her birthday. Emily and I had a big day ahead of us and met both wonderful and grumpy people along the way. This was likely my most sociable day as we had people to share the locks all…
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London to Rickmansworth
London. We have just come through Brentford Gauging Lock 100 and we are headed to Campbell Wharf Marina about 5 miles north of Fenny Stratford Lock 22. It is around about 58 miles and 78 locks between us and long term rest. In a car this distance would be a couple hours even ijn traffic.…
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Cats Aboard
One thing that I most often hear from people about narrowboats is the astonishment that cats live aboard boats. Many boaters have cats! We of course have the best cat in the world but he is by and far not the only cat living the boatlife. Don’t they run away? Most common question! No, if…
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Thames…The Journey Home
We left the Kennet and Avon on the Tuesday with an aim to get as far as we could manage before booking our use of the Thames Lock at Brentford. We were not sure how long we would need to get to Teddington. The first day started off pretty well. There was one tree that…
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Stuck Again!
THe Kennet and Avon Canal has been a nightmare! First it was low water causing us to ground. Then they were closing the section we were in. We got through that after a head injury and got through the closures. We thought we were motoring. Then I break my wrist on lock 70. So surely…
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Heads, Wrists, and Roasting to Death
I will not be getting into so much detail on the way home as it is almost all retracing our steps for a few weeks. It has been interesting and at times painful. Not a lot going to plan. We left Devizes on the 9th of July with an intention to be around Froxfield by…
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Final push to Devizes
We decided to take a long weekend to push on for the last 27 miles as over half of that would be lock free. We had the extra help of Emily for the Thursday and Joey for the full weekend. This extra help was magnificent as without it we couldn’t have cruised on Thursday as…
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Kintbury
In my last blog I believe I mentioned that I skipped getting water on Thursday with Emily because I could get it done on Saturday with Alan. That was a mistake as the next water point after Aldermaston is at Kintbury 14 miles away. 14 miles and about as many locks. Locks take time and…
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Cruising away without Alan
We put an offer out to the kids to come visit us on the boat and help me move it while Alan was at work. Both girls wanted to do it but only Emily actually could come along. Emily met me at the cow field and we set off to find another mooring, get fuel,…
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