2011

  Day 3

Fri 03 Jun 2011

After breakfast, headed on South, arriving at the yard around 13:00 after doing the shopping for the start of the trip.

09:20 Leicester Depart hotel   b / w / a
09:50 Leicester M&S for shopping
11:50 Leighton Buzzard Tesco for shopping
13:00 THE WYVERN SHIPPING COMPANY Arrive boatyard   b / h / a
15:20 THE WYVERN SHIPPING COMPANY Cast off from yard, headed North on Grand Union Canal.
15:50 LEIGHTON LK (27) < 6' 8''
17:20 SOULBURY THREE LKS(26-24) IWA were "ransoming" the locks for charity. Pay a donation and they would lock you through (willingly paid as they do a lot of good work).
17:30 Stoke Hammond Decided that we would not make it to Fenny Stratford as planned due to long lie and various other delays. Moored for night and ate aboard (shame about the Chinese meal at Aromas, we had been looking forward to it!)   b / h / b

Daily totals Miles Locks Hours Ave lm/h
  3.50 4 2.17 3.46

GPS track


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