Saturday 13 August 2016

Crookham Village



Here I am Rune
Distance 10.5 miles
Total 2017 Locks  90 Tunnels
Running total mileage 2834.8miles

Today it was onward past Farnborough Airfield to Fleet where we got the weekend shopping and then another hour further on to the mooring by Chequers Bridge, which is a quiet woodland mooring nicely off the beaten track. Whilst at Fleet we came across one of the Historic boats that had attended last weekend’s festival in Woking, they are heading to the end of the canal but have to be back to the Deep Cut flight of locks by Monday so they have a couple of fairly heavy day’s work to do. We are slightly more relaxed although we do need to have reached the end of the canal tomorrow and turned around for the return. I’m a little concerned that a previous landslip in the region of Dogmersfield may slow us down a bit as the depth isn’t too good there, but if the Historic boat gets through with a 3’ draught then we should be able to do so (particularly if they have gone through first and deepened it for us!).

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