{"id":1881,"date":"2018-06-29T21:03:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T20:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2018-06-29T21:03:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T20:03:05","slug":"our-first-full-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Our first full day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver was handed into our tender care by Toby and Sarah just before lunch time on 28th June when we moored up on the visitor moorings between locks 14 and 15 of the Lapworth Flight.\u00a0 <\/span>We stayed there overnight while we got ourselves organised.<\/p>\n

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Our loading and offloading point at the Canal Shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Feeling he needed some exercise Peter cycled about five miles along the towpath and found an idyllic mooring for tomorrow night.\u00a0 <\/span>It was unfortunately another five miles to get back to Oliver.<\/p>\n

We awoke fairly early on the following morning and decided we may as well get going so we could be the first boat down the remainder of the Lapworth Locks.\u00a0 <\/span>So we set off at 07:15 and this worked really well for us.\u00a0 <\/span>Most of the locks were in our favour and just needed a bit of topping up.\u00a0 <\/span>We reached Kingswood Junction just before another boat turned towards Stratford from the Grand Union.\u00a0 <\/span>Perfect timing for us!<\/p>\n

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Split bridge Kingswood Junction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A nice example of a Barrel House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were some very heavy lock gates and some tough ground and gate paddles but we managed by sharing the steering and locking between us.<\/p>\n

Lock 34 created a bit of a problem as the gate would not open fully and we came to a halt at our first attempt to leave the lock.\u00a0 <\/span>We managed to back out of the gate close it again, poke around with the boat hook and reopen it so we could eventually get through.<\/p>\n

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What the “bleep” is going on here?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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That’s better<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Reflections by a canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We arrived at our chosen mooring at 14:10.\u00a0 <\/span>This is a great spot with about 200 metres of Armco, deep water and good shade.\u00a0 <\/span>There are no roads or pubs close by so perhaps that\u2019s why it is not popular and we were there all on our own.<\/p>\n

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What a lovely place to spend an evening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We really could not have had a better start to our journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oliver was handed into our tender care by Toby and Sarah just before lunch time on 28th June when we moored up on the visitor moorings between locks 14 and 15 of the Lapworth Flight.\u00a0 We stayed there overnight while we got ourselves organised.   Feeling he needed some exercise Peter cycled about five miles … Continue reading Our first full day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-avon-ring-2018","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-ul","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}