{"id":1932,"date":"2018-07-03T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2018-07-04T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T21:10:38","slug":"ware-the-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1932","title":{"rendered":"‘Ware the Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trinity lock was open and ready for us to motor in when we checked at 7:30 this morning so off we went.<\/p>\n

With the vast majority of the festival boats having left the Avon looked very different and far more peaceful.<\/p>\n

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Peaceful Avon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was also a big difference between the narrow Stratford Canal with its very narrow locks and the river with its comparatively massive structures.<\/p>\n

The first one for us The Colin P Witter Lock had nice easy to lift paddles, although 36 turns explains why, but the downstream gates were extremely heavy and the help of a kindly fisherman was very welcome.<\/p>\n

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It is what it says<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The guides seem determined to put boaters off with repeated warnings of danger.\u00a0 <\/span>The water was definitely low for our passage and the biggest danger was probably one of sunburn.\u00a0 <\/span>Nevertheless the weirs were certainly something to avoid.<\/p>\n

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Narrowboats don’t surf very well<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Luddington we joined up with Nick on \u201cDown The Hatch\u201d and continued with him until he stopped for lunch after Barton Lock.\u00a0 <\/span>We met up again at Offenham Lock in the late afternoon.\u00a0 <\/span>The first oncoming boat did not appear until 9:55, nearly two and a half hours after we first cast off.<\/p>\n

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Nick on “Down The Hatch”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It seemed slightly strange to be using one of the arches closest to the bank at Bidford-on-Avon but the sign is not to be ignored.<\/p>\n

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Bidford-on-Avon Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Harvington Lock we met Jan and Steve on Tiree, friends of Jane and Richard, whom we had met last year when we were coming up from.Bristol.\u00a0 <\/span>They very kindly helped us with the lock which was much appreciated especially as the gates were pretty heavy.<\/p>\n

It was a really pleasant voyage down the Avon mostly quite a wide river but sometimes narrowing unexpectedly and quite twisty in parts.\u00a0 <\/span>There were lots of damsel flies, dragon flies and butterflies\u00a0 <\/span>to be seen en route but only one heron standing distantly on a weir.<\/p>\n

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Straight and wide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sometimes twisty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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