Map Reference SU 72061 73390
Distance 13Miles
Total 109 Locks 6 Tunnels
This account again covering two days of travel from Cleeve
Lock on the Thames onto the Kennet and Avon Canal where we are now moored on
the Reading Gaol loop, literally in the shadow of Reading Gaol. It is something
of a business area so hoping for a reasonably quiet night, if so may stay for
more than one night, if not we’ll move on tomorrow out of Reading.
Only real point of interest here was being moored behind a
Humber keel called ‘Daybreak’ whilst we were at Pangbourne last night. Looks a
fairly sound sea-going vessel and the owner was intending to take it under sail
along the next pound to Mapledurham Lock, would have been quite a sight under
full sail however when we left Pangbourne the owner was still out sailing in
his dinghy and there was very little wind, and what wind there was would have
been directly against him. Point of interest to me was that when the keel was
operating commercially from Hull to Doncaster in the South Yorkshire
Navigation, my own grandfather was operating commercially on the same waterways
so would have undoubtedly have seen this boat regularly.
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