Lots of fun today, mate number two joined as crew to assist in negotiating locks as I had no idea what to expect and what a sound boat mate Marky is. There were a variety of locks, the first few were manned & a doddle and for some we were on our own.
The first snag of today's journey was literally that. We decided a bit of rowing would be fun untill the first bridge when the mast would need to be lowered. We rowed along happily boating when,it felt like,we got caught up in a branch or summat, couldn't see anything to snag on or how owt on t'boat could be caught,tried again,snagged again,so started outboard and again stopped by some invisible force. Once we tuned into the cries of fellow boaters realised that the MAST was snagging on a telephone line :-) That's another bit of experience gained.
The journey was great fun, a sunny day and lots of fellow boaters chatting. It was dead cool to see a town (Nottingham) which you are familiar with from a tangential, watery point of view. At one point I had a very quick pint (making progress was the main plan today) in a canalside pub,went over the road bridge to get back to boat and recognised a major thoroughfare thru town.
Downstream from Nottingham the river has the smell of freshly treated effluent, there is a faint tang of it in the air where I am moored.
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