Harlow Town

Here I am Rune

Distance 5.8 miles

Total 1945 Locks  90 Tunnels

Running total mileage 2739 miles

I would have to say that last night’s mooring was one of the most pleasant on this canal, nicely out in the countryside but with a good outlook, not hemmed in by trees or bushes. After a day’s travel we are now alongside Harlow Town railway station, convenient for services but not as picturesque.

The day’s travel went quite well, there were more boats on the move than we have experience so far on this bit of canal. We were third in line behind a cruiser and another narrow boat at each of the locks, but since we are in no particular rush this wasn’t a problem. The only place things got a bit confused was at Harlow Mill lock where two wide beam trip boats and a narrow boat were coming up whilst ourselves, the second narrow boat and the cruiser were going down. One of the wide beam trip boats was taking lunch on the lock mooring below the lock and there was a broken down boat on the lock mooring above the lock, so things got a little bit congested. As is always the way we found a way to get through. The only slightly worrying feature was as we went through Harlow Mill lock we seemed to get caught on something on the lockside causing the boat to tilt over. Whatever it was soon released us but I never did find out what caused it.

Tomorrow’s travel will very much depend upon the weather, the forecast suggests that we will get some rain in the morning so we will have to see how bad it rains before we decide how far (or whether) we travel tomorrow.