Fishery lock to Lady Capels lock

31 July - Locks aren't always on your side

Up at 6.30, blog typed, illustrated and posted and we moved off downstream at 8.30, a heavy day of locks, some boat ahead is leaving one of the bottom gates open as they leave, a walker said they were a hire boat of Germans, another they were French and someone else send Danish.
Up stream yesterday there were locks that CRT wanted left empty but those ones had notices on the balance arms, today's did not but the actions of one boat made our day a whole lot harder. If we do catch up with them I will mention the WAR.

 Peaceful drive between locks though in good weather

 Shared the driving and locks today

 Alot of developement happening in Hemel Hempstead

Another thing today, as we came out of the 2nd to last lock the prop picked up something, wire, plastic, wood, who knows. I did the usual hard astern, hard ahead but there still seemed to be a vibration or rattle down below. We moored for the night and down the weed hatch I went, clean as a whistle, that was lucky.

 Nearly over for day and below our view for night

TOTAL - 5miles, 11 locks, 1 water fill and a load of washing