Date - 01/01/07 Day - Monday Start - 0915 Radford Semele End - 1430 Blue Lias
Again the weather improved as the evening progressed and well before midnight we had clear blue skys with stars and moonlight. There were spasmodic fireworks going off during the evening and a couple of times the church bells burst into life. After dinner we all went to John and Joan's boat to see the new year in. As Big Ben sounded the hour there were fireworks going off in every direction we looked, some just small displays but in the distance there were some quite large ones. By 1 o'clock this morning things had quietened down and we were all off to bed. Early this morning the wind picked up quite squally but by 9 o'clock the sun was out and things had settled down to the makings of a good boating day. We set off about quarter past nine and it was really pleasant. we didn't see any other boats on the move until we met a boat at Fosse Wharf and then as we approached the next lock there were two boats just coming in at the top, one of them was "Virgo" with Guy and Connie on board. As they planning to eat with us tonight at the Blue Lias they thought it best if they winded and came back up with us. We tried to get Virgo round just below the lock but it was about a foot to narrow to get the bows round, Guy had to stick the stern into the shallow off side which didn't help .Had he have been going up we may have managed it, but as it was his only alternative was to carry on down the flight until he could find a point wide enough to wind, this he did below Fosse Top Lock We carried on up the flight and finally caught the others up at Long Itchington where they were both moored for lunch. We had just finished lunch when Guy came up behind us so we pushed off and joined him through the final 2 locks to finally moor on the lawns of the Blue Lias and await the arrival of the other two boats at approximately 2 30 pm -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
