The Tinsley Flight of 11 small locks has to be traversed to reach Sheffield. It didn’t start raining until we were at the penultimate lock, and the shower was heavy but quick. On arrival in Sheffield’s Victoria Quays there was a rainbow.
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Sykehouse Lock to Doncaster in windy weather
Grief, it was windy! It’s difficult to drive a narrowboat when the wind’s strong. Had a bumpy night, with little waves forming on the water and splashing constantly on the hull.
Goodbye Thames, hello Oxford Canal
Boating on the Thames in Autumn has been a wonderful experience. The river has been consistently beautiful and interesting from Brentford to Oxford. At Oxford we left the Thames and entered the Oxford Canal via a lock. Suddenly everything’s much narrower.
Hanwell Flight
Travelled from Brentford to Cowley. It was an exhausting trip to do alone on such a hot day and the worst part was climbing the flight of six locks at Hanwell. Half way through I had to stop for a couple of hours’ rest. Stretches of the canal were full of debris washed in by […]
Locks on the Thames
The locks on the Thames are somewhat different to those I’ve used on the canals. In my regular haunts, between Camden, Cowley and Hanwell, there are over 20 miles of canal with no locks and it’s easy to cover a long distance quickly. In other places such as around Marsworth there are several locks per […]