Pinkhill Lock

Here I am Rune

Distance 12.9miles

Total 2121 Locks  90 Tunnels

Running total mileage 3039.6 miles

Today’s cruise was a marked improvement on yesterday, the fix that I carried out on the faulty Battery isolator switch has held together all day and we have now reached within walking distance of Oxford Cruisers. A small downside was that we only got here after 5pm when they were shut for the day so hoping for some more success tomorrow.

The trip was good although I have to admit a couple of minor mistakes which nearly took us into the bankside foliage. The first one was on a particularly sharp corner in which I missed the tree immediately after the corner but was unable to straighten the boat up because we were now too close to the tree, chafed a bit of foiliage from the tree but didn’t hit it. The second instance was at a bridge called ‘Ten foot bridge’ where it is necessary to get right over to the right hand side of the river to pass under it due to limited visibility. Once you’ve done that however you cannot straighten the boat up until having passed through the bridge, by which time there isn’t enough space before you come into the riverbank, a measure of ‘hard astern’ did however prevent this but then needed a bit of shuffling around to get around the corner. A full length boat (72’) that we have met up with in the locks has been having even more ‘fun’ around this particularly winding piece of river.

Tomorrow hopefully we will be able to get on with the repairs and servicing of the boat.