Cruising Log for NB Be‐Bop.

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Date: Distance: 🛈 Locks/bridges: 🛈 Elevation: 🛈 Location: Remarks:
(Saturday, 00:00 GMT @1293840000)
00?Pewsey Wharf, Wiltshire.

Here till when Wootton Rivers Locks are due to re‐open after the winter stoppage.

Updated .

[Arrived: . Waterway: Kennet & Avon]

(Sunday, 15:00 GMT @1294585200)
2.81?Wooton Rivers, Wiltshire.

Here for a bit.

Updated .

(Tuesday, 13:00 GMT @1295355600)
4.09?Crofton, Wiltshire.

Here for a day or so.

(Tuesday, 13:00 GMT @1295960400)
1.84?Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire.

Here for a day or so.

(Wednesday, 14:00 GMT @1296655200)
1.84?Crofton, Wiltshire.

Here for a day or so.

(Friday, 15:00 GMT @1296831600)
16.110/2?Devizes Wharf, Wiltshire.

Here for a day or so.

(Thursday, 18:00 GMT @1298570400)
9.60/2?Pewsey Wharf, Wiltshire.

 

(Saturday, 17:00 GMT @1298739600)
3.50?Honeystreet, Wiltshire.

 

(Friday, 15:00 GMT @1299250800)
6.10?Devizes Wharf, Wiltshire.

Here for a day or so.

(Friday, 16:00 GMT @1299859200)
2.70/1?Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire.

Here till Monday.

(Monday, 16:00 GMT @1300118400)
7.30/1?Pewsey Wharf, Wiltshire.

Here for a day or so.

(Tuesday, 15:00 GMT @1300201200)
6.27?Crofton, Wiltshire.

Here for a week or so.

(Thursday, 17:00 GMT @1300986000)
2.17?By the visitor moorings, Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire.

Here for a day or so.

Oakhill Down Lock should re‐open tomorrow. There is a rumour of a further weeks delay however.

(Wednesday, 17:00 BST @1302105600)
4.38/2?Above the lock, Hungerford, Wiltshire.

Here for a day or so.

Now on my way to Rugby, plenty of time yet as I don't have to be there until late May.

(Friday, 16:00 BST @1302274800)
2.94?Orchard Meadow Bridge, Kintbury, Wiltshire.

Here for the weekend.

(Monday, 13:00 BST @1302523200)
0.40?Above the lock, Kintbury.

Here for .

(Wednesday, 15:00 BST @1302703200)
0.91?By Shepherds Bridge, Between Kintbury and Newbury.

Here overnight.

Stopped due to forecast rain.

(Thursday, 17:00 BST @1302796800)
4.16?By Northcroft Footbridge, Newbury, Berkshire.

Here for the weekend.

[Waterway: River Kennet]

(Wednesday, 16:00 BST @1303311600)
3.85/2?Visitor Moorings, Thatcham.

Here for .

(Sunday, 16:00 BST @1303657200)
2.73/2?Above the lock, Woolhampton, Berkshire.

Here for a day or so.

(Tuesday, 18:00 BST @1303837200)
5.35/6?Above the swing bridge, Theale, Berkshire.

Here for a day or so.

(Saturday, 15:00 BST @1304172000)
3.54?Fobney Island Nature Reserve, Near Reading, Berkshire.

Here for a day or so.

(Tuesday, 12:00 BST @1304420400)
1.82?Reading Gaol, Central Reading, Berkshire.

Here for a day.

(Wednesday, 13:00 BST @1304510400)
0.61?Supermarket moorings, Caversham, Berkshire.

Here for a day.

[Waterway: River Thames]

(Thursday, 18:00 BST @1304614800)
9.13?Goring.

Here overnight.

(Friday, 18:00 BST @1304701200)
11.76?Below the bridge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Here for the weekend.

(Monday, 17:00 BST @1304956800)
6.15?Combe Road Wharf, Oxford.

Here for .

[Waterway: Southern Oxford]

(Wednesday, 15:00 BST @1305122400)
5.44/3?Thrupp Wide, Near Oxford.

Here for a day or so.

(Friday, 20:00 BST @1305313200)
9.58/3?Chisnell Lift Bridge (No. 193)., Middle of nowhere — near Banbury.

Here overnight.

(Saturday, 15:00 BST @1305381600)
2.62?Nell Bridge near Banbury.

Here for the weekend.

(Monday, 14:00 BST @1305550800)
3.82?Visitor Moorings, Banbury.

Here for a couple of days.

(Thursday, 16:00 BST @1305817200)
4.35/1?Above the lock, Cropredy.

Here overnight.

(Friday, 16:00 BST @1305903600)
4.68?Sherne Hill Bridge, Fenny Compton.

Here overnight, maybe for the wekend.

(Saturday, 16:00 BST @1305990000)
2.40?By the bridge, Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire.

Here till Monday.

(Monday, 14:00 BST @1306155600)
3.79?Coventry Road Bridge, Napton, Warwickshire.

Here overnight.

(Tuesday, 16:00 BST @1306249200)
5.20?Willoughby Wharf, Willoughby Wharf, Warwickshire.

Here for a bit.

[Waterway: North Oxford Canal]

(Tuesday, 14:00 BST @1308056400)
3.90?Moors Bridge, Hillmorton, near Rugby.

Here for a bit.

Paid my usual visit to the Exotica Bengal in the village.

(Thursday, 16:00 BST @1308236400)
3.93?Visitor moorings, Newbold, near Rugby.

Here for a day or so, then back to Hillmorton for my boat safety test.

(Tuesday, 16:00 BST @1308668400)
3.73?Moors Bridge, Hillmorton, near Rugby.

Here for a bit.

Braunston Historic Boat Show at the weekend and my Boat Safety Test is next Monday.

(Monday, 17:00 BST @1309795200)
2.70?Brownsover, Rugby.

Here overnight.

(Tuesday, 12:00 BST @1309863600)
1.20?Visitor moorings, Newbold, near Rugby.

 

(Wednesday, 14:00 BST @1309957200)
3.00?Brinklow, near Rugby.

Here till after the weekend I imagine.

(Thursday, 17:00 BST @1310659200)
3.90/1?Ansty, near Coventry.

Here for a day or so.

(Monday, 16:00 BST @1311001200)
4.71?Coventry Basin, Coventry Basin — Central Coventry.

Here for exactly!

Surprisingly peaceful considering.

[Waterway: Coventry Canal]

(Thursday, 16:00 BST @1311260400)
3.40?Exhall, north of Coventry.

Close to the M6.

(Tuesday, 19:00 BST @1311703200)
11.811?Meadow Lane Bridge, Near Atherstone.

Here overnight.

Heading for the IWA Waterways Festival, Burton‐on‐Trent.

(Wednesday, 21:45 BST @1311799500)
13.412?Pump House Pipe Bridge, Burton‐on‐Trent.

Here to work at the Waterways Festival.

Arrived at the end of The Longest Day! A single‐handed trip of 27 miles & 12 locks, achieved in .

[Waterway: Trent & Mersey — Main Line]

(Tuesday, 13:00 BST @1312891200)
0.60?Shobnall, Burton‐on‐Trent.

Here for a day or so.

(Thursday, 12:00 BST @1313060400)
1.41?Branston, near Burton‐on‐Trent.

Here for the weekend.

(Sunday, 12:00 BST @1313319600)
5.55?Arlewas, near Burton‐on‐Trent.

Here for a day or so.

(Monday, 13:00 BST @1313409600)
1.23?Fradley Junction.

Here for a day or so.

(Tuesday, 16:00 BST @1313506800)
1.11?Fradley — near Lichfield.

Here for a day or so.

[Waterway: Coventry Canal]

(Friday, 15:00 BST @1313762400)
1.70?King's Orchard Bridge, Streethay.

Here overnight.

(Saturday, 14:00 BST @1313845200)
5.50?Tamworth.

Here for a day or so.

For the shopping.

[Waterway: Birmingham & Fazeley]

(Monday, 15:00 BST @1314021600)
3.91?Visitors mooring, Kingsbury Water Park.

Here for a week or so.

(Monday, 17:00 BST @1315238400)
3.21?Fazeley, near Tamworth.

Here overnight.

[Waterway: Coventry Canal]

(Tuesday, 15:00 BST @1315317600)
6.05?Whittington Bridge, Atherstone, near Tamworth.

Here for a bit.

On my way to the end of the Ashby Canal to see a boat painter.

(Wednesday, 13:00 BST @1315396800)
6.48?Nuneaton.

Here overnight.

Shopping.

(Friday, 16:00 BST @1315580400)
0.00?Nuneaton.

Here for a bit.

(Saturday, 18:00 BST @1315674000)
4.00?Exhall, Hawkesbury Junction — north of Coventry.

Here till Friday I would think.

(Friday, 14:00 BST @1316178000)
2.60?Quarry Bridge, near Bedworth.

Here overnight.

[Waterway: Ashby‐de‐la‐Zouch Canal]

(Saturday, 17:00 BST @1316275200)
3.00?near Hinkley.

Here till Monday.

(Monday, 15:00 BST @1316440800)
3.90?Stoke Golding.

Here for a day or so.

(Wednesday, 16:00 BST @1316617200)
3.60?Market Bosworth.

Here for a day or so.

(Thursday, 14:00 BST @1316696400)
2.30?Shackerstone.

Here for the weekend.

(Tuesday, 15:00 BST @1317132000)
2.20?Market Bosworth.

Here for a day or so.

(Wednesday, 16:00 BST @1317222000)
3.60?Stoke Golding.

Here for a day or so.

(Sunday, 16:00 BST @1317567600)
3.00?Nutts Bridge, Hinckley.

Here for a day or so.

(Tuesday, 15:00 BST @1317736800)
3.40?Quarry Bridge, Whitestone, near Nuneaton.

Here for a day or so.

(Wednesday, 14:00 BST @1317819600)
0.60?Griff, near Nuneaton.

Here for a day or so.

[Waterway: Coventry Canal]

(Saturday, 14:00 BST @1318078800)
3.10?Near Nuneaton.

Here for a day or so.

(Tuesday, 16:00 BST @1318345200)
4.15?Atherstone.

Here overnight.

(Wednesday, 14:00 BST @1318424400)
0.53?Atherstone.

Here for a bit.

(Thursday, 17:00 GMT @1321549200)
6.28?Nuneaton.

Here, waiting for my boat paint — starts Friday.

(Friday, 16:00 GMT @1321632000)
12.30?Heather, Leicestershire.

Here at the painters1. Work starts tomorrow.

Should be here for two weeks before going back to Nuneaton by road.

[Waterway: Out the water]

(Thursday, 10:00 GMT @1323338400)
12.30?Boot Wharf, Nuneaton.

Finally back on the water! All painted and shiny.

[Waterway: Coventry Canal]

(Saturday, 16:00 GMT @1323532800)
5.00?Taverners Bridge, Atherstone.

Here overnight, moving on tomorrow.

(Sunday, 17:00 GMT @1323622800)
1.28?Whittington Bridge, Atherstone.

Back at my favourite mooring in these parts.

Update: Won't be moving now until after Christmas.

Total:331.7 (min.)212/26

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