Tag: grand union canal
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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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First Impressions of the Kennet and Avon Canal
We left Pangbourne early in the morning. The aim is to get off the River Thames and onto the Kennet and Avon Canal at Reading.sounds simple enough. Once on the canal we can see about mooring just after the town centre for lunch and then go on for a while longer to get into the…
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Thames…part two
The weather was fair and the hour early when we cruised away from Abingdon on the River Thames. Our goal for the day was to arrive at Wallingford and moor up around noon. Things would not be going to our plans. Not even out of Abingdon the steering felt wrong to Alan. We were far…
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First River, a Chugging Noise, and Oxford
We realised that at this point if we pushed on and had a long day we could potentially reach the Thames the next day. Challenge accepted! Friday was a mostly uneventful day. We cruised from 8:30 am until 6pm. As we hoped to be onto the Thames the next day we topped up our water…
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Setting off on the South Oxford Canal
Had our boat blacked at Braunston over the weekend and collected her back up to set off on our summer adventure to Devizes. This has so far meant traveling to Braunston on the Grand Union Canal and now we will be turning off onto the South Oxford. In about a weeks time we will arrive…
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Long Sunny Day of Cruising
We set off from Nether Heyford going north on the Grand Union Canal on a Sunday. There was only one day this weekend for moving the boat because our Saturday was filled up with visiting Swindon for my 100th Parkrun and a friend’s birthday party. Our goal was to get past the Leicester arm of…
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Blisworth Tunnel
I will admit now that I didn’t take many pictures. The day was grey and rainy….and of course cold! You didn’t think we could have two gloriously bright and sunny days in a row did you? Sunday was exactly the opposite of Saturday both in weather and excitement. We left off early so as to…
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