His and Hers

The ultimate arrangement? His and Hers narrow boats.

Here are Sue and Vic from No Problem with their old and new narrow boats. Sue is steering their  new boat which they are moving onto, while Vic is steering their home for several happy years.

Their former home is up for sale and they are heading towards Braunston to sell the boat there - unless someone takes up this once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase the boat with the lovely happy past before they get there.

Sue and Vic had left Devizes and cruised to just short of the first locks at Wootton Rivers on Wednesday.  I travelled by train to join them for 2 days to help work through the locks to Hungerford.

It was great fun and lovely to be with these friends again.  Their dog, Lucy, was a little uncertain when she saw me in the distance on a folding bike, having not seen me on one before, but as soon as she recognised me I was given her special welcome.

 

Lucy often trots along the towpath alongside the narrow boat as they move along.  She was a little confused and not sure which boat to follow or to ride on.

We used the folding bike for lock wheeling - cycling along the towpath between locks.  This enabled one of us to close the gates and paddles at one lock, then ride to the next lock to have that ready for when the boats arrive.

Here’s Lucy running ahead of Sue, while looking backwards to make sure she’s following.


 

The weather was glorious providing the opportunity to photograph the boats breasted up as we tried different ways to move them between locks.

Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 at 18:29
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No Problem at Caen Hill

A leisurely start today and off to Devizes to see the Caen Hill flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal.  Although I had seen many photos this was the first time I had seen the locks in person.

But moored at the top of the main flight of locks was the main reason for today’s visit - No Problem and Moore2Life.

Lucy, the wonderful dog from No Problem, came bounding along the towpath to see me like a long lost friend.  She seems to recognise me walking up the towpath, well before I arrive.

We worked the two boats down the main flight at a leisurely pace, stopping for coffee in one of the locks as there were no other boats around.

At the bottom of the flight we moored the boats and Sue provided soup and rolls for all of us.  Thank you Sue.

Posted on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 19:23
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