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The name describes my demeanour and voice! I love narrowboating and that is why this blog is mainly about the boat and our interaction with it. I have been keeping a log for Sonflower ever since we bought her and moved onto her as our main residence. Some incidents in our boating life have been hilarious, some scary and some down right dangerous. I cannot tell what will come in the future but you can now share them! The crew are an 'ordinary' couple. The Best Mate and I.

Monday, 21 June 2021

A short trip

 On Friday evening. 18th June, the rain that had been persistent and at times heavy all day lessened and we thought deeply about our options. We need to be in Warwick on Wednesday. The Best Mate suggested that Alex and I could leave her at home and take the boat as far as we could on Saturday. To do that we decided to go to the boat on Friday evening. 

As we drove to The Wharf Inn, Fenny Compton the rain stopped.

When we got to the boat we found the front mooring pin had been pulled out and the mooring line was dragging in the water. Thank goodness we had also moored with a centre rope. But rather than attempt a more secure mooring we decided to start the engine and cruise to a more place where we coould safely moor agaist Armco with piling clips.

We cruised for 45 minutes to just past Griffin's Bridge 131 where we stopped and settled down to watch England v Scotland. What a disappointment.

We retired for the night just after the full time whistle.

                                                                                                  2 miles, 0 locks  45 minutes

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