Friday 29th July 2016

Off we went down through Avon lock and onto the Severn. This flour mill stopped working a few years ago. It would be good if they develop it in some way before it decays too much.

We thought that we were travelling at a reasonable speed down The Severn but 3 narrow boats over took us. We discovered later that there is not a great deal of mooring space in the main basin at Gloucester docks and everyone was going "hell for leather" to get there first!

We were held for about 30mins on the quay wall and then entered the lock and secured ropes on the vertical metal rods. It seemed to take an age to fill. This shows the leakage though the front gates.

We went for a walk around the area which we had visited last Autumn when we came to see a Rugby World Cup match. This dry dock is a tremendous size.

Quite a bit of work left to do on this boat. Looking forward to Fiona and Nigel visiting tomorrow.