Thursday 7th August

We woke to glorious sunshine and the weather the whole day was fantastic. Kate joined us at Molesey lock for a day's sailing up the Thames.

We passed many houseboats and lovely houses with their gardens sweeping down to the river.

This rather dilapidated corrugated shed was once the boatbuilding yard for the motor torpedo boats during the First World War. They were able to pass downstream through Molesey lock which had been widened in 1906 to 268ft to cope with the upstream coal traffic coming to the pumping stations at Hampton and Kempton.

At one point some bunting was being erected. They were just a little slow as we arrived before it was finished!

Mooring tonight at Shepperton.