"You can moor anywhere", he said!
Very pleased with ourselves after the 10km race in Bath You will know by now that much of our life is carefully planned with expert precision. Ian is well aware that spontaneity is not my forte and I don’t generally embrace the cheerful fatalism of ‘que sera, sera’. So, as you can imagine, canal life has come as quite a shock! The system is old and many of the locks are literally falling apart. Ian exits 19ft Bath Deep Lock Best laid plans often have to be rewritten or torn up all together. The water levels were struggling, even before the recent heatwave, and we have managed to dodge a number of closures on the Kennet & Avon (K&A) where we are currently cruising, including the flight of locks at Caen Hill which has been shut for much of the last two weeks due to pump failure. Shut means exactly that - nothing can go up and down the canal, so you are literally stranded in whichever end you happen to be. Boats sink (really), bridges break and loc...