What has happened to the weather, gales, rain, and then sunshine. Trying to steer the boat in the wind over the last couple of days has been hard work!
We made it up onto the Ashby Canal, met up with our friends, had a very good day and then battled back throught the winds and are now back home... In a couple of days I set off again with the 'lads' for the BCN Challenge.
It has however been an interesting few days...... BW have obviously been active in the Fazeley area as all the continuous moorers have moved on from Fazeley... although the usual 'culprits' can still be found not too far away, however, boaters now passing through have plenty of space to moor overnight before continuing on their journeys.
The Ashby Canal has not changed one bit, it is still shallow and it is till a lovely rural canal. But it too has its problems.... for instance, on the way up there was a boat moored where it said 'mooring for water point only' and on the way back the boat was still there... maybe it has a big watertank but I could not see the hose connnected to the water tap... A few yards away are 48 hour moorings, I could have sworn that one of the boats on the 48 hour moorings was there last year, and the other one was definitely overstaying the 48 hours.
In other areas however the 'rules' seemed to being obeyed.
