Tag: Kennet and Avon canal
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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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Boat shows and cow fields
Last left you at our first mooring on the Kennet and Avon Canal. The weekend plans were going to the Crick Boat Show on Saturday and cruise on the Sunday. For once things went pretty much as we planned. On the Saturday morning we got up early and headed off to Northamptonshire for the show.…
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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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