I went for a short look around our Washlands mooring and saw that these horses were back on the lock landing. They came galloping round the same spot yesterday when I was working the lock and I didn’t return to that side until they had gone!
A couple of boats which have seen better days!
We were allocated a berth in the Marina for the night and the chap in the next boat was saying that he had started to leave yesterday and to turn right for the first lock on the Nene. He heard a loud clunk as he moved from forward to reverse gear and lost all propulsion. His propeller had fallen off!!!!!! He was towed back to the marina and is now stuck there as a possible mechanic is on holiday for a week and in any case he doesn’t know if the boat will need to come out of the water for the repair.
Tomorrow we are back on canals as we tackle the 17 narrow locks of the Northampton Arm up to Gayton on the Grand Union Canal. Again there may be a couple of days without a ‘blog’ until we reach civilisation again!
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