Neil Arlidge explained on 27/07/2009 : > Brian wrote: >> Date - 27 July 09 >> Day - Monday >> Start - Thrupp 0900 >> End - Somerton Meadow 1615 hrs >> >> Just after we moored up last night it started to rain and it was >> still raining when we left this morning. We pushed off just after 9 >> am and I have never seen this end of the Oxford so busy, at >> Northbrook Lock we were fourth in the queue for the lock and we must >> have met over 20 boats by then and we continued queuing for the rest >> of the day. The rain stopped about half ten but then we had odd >> showers for the rest of the day with very hot sunny spells in >> between. We pushed on longer than intended as we couldn't find a nice >> spot to moor, finally mooring by the Meadow at Somerton. Since we >> have been here several boats have been by including one from >> Oxfordshire Narrowboats who had a breaking was behind him. The chap >> behind shouted at him and he throttled back immediately, but still >> pulled the pins on the boat ahead of us and dragged our piling hook >> almost into the next indent, it was only recovered by the use of a >> lump hammer. >> >> You will find our latest position at >> http://tinyurl.com/Harnser-s-route > > I dunno if I could ever handle this amount of traffic again. Last time out on > the Grand Canal we saw THREE!!!! narrowboats moving in a day. That was busy, > normally we are lucky to see one boat moving in a week.
Today is worse -- Brian traveling on Harnser http://nbharnser.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
