Today was all about lining up for the Caen Hill Flight tomorrow, it ‘should’ have just been a simple two hour run in.  We left early, as we wanted to keep in front of the miserable pair of boats (known as the miseries) from yesterday.

We reached Devizes, and the rain started, luckily we already had our wet gear on.  We had hoped to moor at the top of the locks in Devizes, unfortunately CRT are replacing the towpath so no moored boats allowed.  We were forced to go down the first lock – not the plan!  We tried to moor in the pounds in between, but we just couldn’t get close enough to the bank.

So we then had to go down lock number 2, Toby managed to get us in, but we needed the plank, and the chances of me falling in were high!  So through lock number 3 and we moored in the pound, on the moorings for the pub.

We felt we should at least have lunch at the pub seeing as we’re on their mooring pins.  I wouldn’t recommend it, my tuna jacket was OK, but Toby’s baguette was somewhat of a fail.

We wandered down to the flight and chatted to the CRT man,  we also made our own early coalition with another boat to go down the locks tomorrow.

A walk in to Devizes to top up food supplies, and then a bit of pottering.  An early start tomorrow with an agreed 8am kick off – much to Toby and the chappie on the other boat’s frustration….I’m keeping in front of the miseries, they can continue to cruise in our dirty air (I’ve been watching too much sailing on the Americas cup!)