This is Steve & Viv Carter's log of the trips and travails on the narrowboat Adagio – liveaboards from October 2015. Then back to the shore, in Trefin, Wales from November 2019. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark Twain)” narrowboatadagio@gmail.com cranog5@gmail.com
Heatwave, now Storms
There’s something wrong with the weather, for sure. We did a short and dismal trip from Hawkesbury to Ansty. Enough to charge the batteries but lower the mood – it was getting wet so we stopped. The M69 was noisy but it was a fair mooring with rings.
Now, tell me, honestly, would you plan to cruise, navigate through Braunston, do 6 big locks with this forecast???
the only pic for Sunday . . . spots of rain already as we waited to negotiate the Hawkesbury turn Conversely, Monday was forecast to be dry, sunny & warm. This shows the North Oxford canal in all its glory – all the Butterburs!A family of swansOne of the disued arms that the canal used to follow before it got straightened out.Steve drives – sun cream on!Had a bit wait to enter the Newbold tunnelViv captures some of the many blue/black damsel fliesAround Rugby and towards Barby mooringsWhere we see Mark on his boat & new shedsVery busyVery pretty sectionAnd we popped in to Dunchurch to get some fuel (79p/litre)A long day – nearly 7 hours but we were keen to press on in the nice weather, to get to just beyond Willoughby and bridge 87. Under the trees for coolness..A great spotNice view – no roads, trains . . . dark clouds comingAnd very, very busy . . .