Catch up

I managed to forget to blog our journey from Winkwell down to Boxmoor, It was uneventful apart from the low water level in the pound between Boxmoor Top Lock and Fishery Lock. Some British Waterways work boats that were heading up ran a lot of water through to stop themselves from going aground but the level was still about a foot down. Ray kept Morgana to the middle of the cut so no problem just "interesting".

We have spent the last couple of weeks moored at Boxmoor, Ray managed to get an alternator from the breakers for £15 then paid a local garage a couple of quid to swap the pulley from the old one to the 'new' one as the new pulley was too big. Anyway we are now back to normal as far as power is concerned so no more expensive petrol!

 Less than a week now until we collect the car so yesterday it was time to start heading for Watford, as we have tickets booked on the train for next week. We only did the short hop down to the facilities and Sainsbury's at Apsley then today we carried on toward King's Langley. We stopped about a mile before reaching there as the weather was miserable. The forecast for tomorrow is better so we might make it to Grove Mill. We may stop there as we can hop on the bus to Watford Junction from there and it is a nice spot.

Since my last blog we have travelled 3.4 miles, 9 locks and 1 swing bridge


So far this year we have travelled 450.7 miles, 427 locks, 3 swing bridges, 34 lift bridges and 15 tunnels


Since Ray retired we have travelled 1181.4 miles, 1076 locks, 58 swing bridges, 38 lift bridges and 40 tunnels.