Somehow each year we manage to time this late season cruise for the first properly cold weekend of the autumn/winter. It doesn't matter which weekend we choose it is going to be cold.
High water at Torksey is at about 11am tomorrow so we have no rush to get all of the way there. Instead we have decided that we will stop off at Saxilby tonight. It means we have made some progress towards Torksey, got out of the marina for the evening, can enjoy a nice take out from Bella Pizza and can give Sydney a good run in the morning on the playing fields to tire him out and burn off some energy. And to top it all off we can have a bit of a lie in as well. A win win all round.
Then tomorrow it is out onto the Trent with probably a lunchtime stop at Dunham Bridge and a walk to the pub prior to setting off to High Marnham for the evening.
So can we blame you for the cold weather we are going to experience as we to move our boat this weekend - just 7 miles, but 45 locks to get her back to the marina post bottom blacking?!! Have a great weekend and wrap up warm. Jennie nb Tentatrice.
ReplyDeleteI believe you can. Every year without fail we pick the first cold weekend of the autumn/winter period.
ReplyDeleteThankfully only one lock for us each way and it is manned!
Cold, but a great time to be out and about. Had a couple of trips out last week and virtually had the river to ourselves
ReplyDeleteIt was a really nice weekend. We all have heating onboard so were all toasty warm.
ReplyDeleteNot another boat out on the Trent bar our little group.
Looking forward to our trip to West Stockwith in a couple of weeks now. Will probably be our last chance to give NC a proper high speed run this year.