Date - 27 02 07 Day - Tuesday Start - 1030 above Heyford Common Lock End - 1500 hrs opposite Old Wharf
Last nights weather forecast of heavy rain was about half right. Monday night we went to bed to a moon and star light night but by the early hours this morning we were getting high winds and heavy rain, however by the time we got up the weather was much improved and the rain had stopped, it stayed like this untill we moored up in a heavy drizzle at 3 pm this afternoon. We didn't see any other boats on the move until we reached Aynho Weir, here one was just leaving the lock which was handy for us to go straight in, the other was sitting on the lock moorings waiting just the other side of the weir. The Cherwell was still well into the red and the first boat we met had scraped there cabin top on the bridge entering the lock, the same place I did my chimney in.We left the lock and crossed the weir with no problem at all but when we reached Nell Lock Bridge there were two boats moored on the lock moorings, one was there when we came down, the second was a hire boat that we had seen earlier in the week and I think he was a bit to tall to get through Nell Bridge, we only just slid under and that was with the rubber duck radio aerial bending down. As we had no particular place to go, looking at the map showed that we would be furthest from both the Motorway and the railway if we moored where the canal forms a loop by the Old Wharf half way between Nell Bridge and ColesLift Bridge. This we did at 3 pm in heavy drizzle, but this soon cleared leaving just the odd shower and a bit of sun. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
