Captive for a while

 

After a peaceful night at Hawkesbury junction we pulled pins at 08.10 and soon passed the old engine house.

We then made the turn under the bridge and left the Coventry canal and then through the stop lock and we joined the North Oxford canal.

A bit of a hold up at Rose Narrowboats as the boat filling with water on the right had blocked the canal.

We passed this guy on route doing the monotonous job of pit filling. Pits are holes made by rust eating into the metal of a boats hull. They can be filled in with weld like in the picture above , but if they get too bad it may be a case of re-plating the hull.… Its a good reminder to keep your hull in good condition and always have it blacked every couple of years.

Approaching Hillmorton locks, and why do the dickhead Graffiti idiots have to spoil this.

Up through Hillmorton locks and another holdup with a hire boat in front of coming down the locks at the top. So as the lock says we are captive for a while. It was their first ever lock and according to them it was nothing like the hire company told them it would be. That sounds about right.

With this guy flying over us we moored up at Hillmorton for the night . In the morning we will head towards Braunston where we need to get a new Pressure relief valve for our calorifier.

                                                                                                                   Happy Days