22/04/12
Arbury Park Bridge 16 – Atherstone, Kings Head Bridge 44
Before I had even woke up today, Yog had already nearly sank
a pair of canoeists and rear ended an
old boy on his boat who pulled out on him at Boot Wharf in single lane traffic
(boats moored both sides). By the time I
arrived on the back deck with tea and ciggies he was already wound up and not a
happy bunny. We then had to follow said
old boy who was travelling unbelievably slowly.
Making us have to travel at the same pace, making the boat harder to
control in the wind etc…you get the
picture.
Thankfully he pulled over and let us past and we got a
decent pace going again. We had no
intention of stopping in Nuneaton, and now we were seeing it for ourselves we
definitely would not be stopping!! The word Dump springs to mind. Piles of fly-tipped rubbish, broken windows and boarded up buildings everywhere. We couldn’t get through the place quick
enough to be honest.
We replenished supplies in Atherstone before heading through
the lock flight. It was quite busy with
boats going both ways. We came across a
man single crewing who was obviously having a bad day as he had a go at me for
closing the lock gates on the lock above allowing someone else to turn it
against him and nick his water. I calmly
explained that I wasn’t the one he should be angry at as I didn’t tell them not to wait for him
to get there at and directed him to the people in the lock above.
At the next lock, the people behind caught us up and we
chatted about the grumpy man lol.
Apparently a hire boat had actually turned the lock whilst waiting for
their water tank to fill up and offered the lock to them instead, so they
directed grumpy man to the hire boat lol
At the 5th lock in the flight the heavens opened
big time and we hurriedly pulled in near Kings Head Bridge, near lock 6.
After such an early start we were both knackered and a bit
tetchy. Enough for today, roll on
tomorrow.
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