So What happened to this blog then!?

So What happened to this blog then!? It went by the wayside.  Every evening I would finish boating and my only thoughts were food and sleep.

Anyway I'll give you a bit of a retrospective idea of what happened so apologies in advance for mass posting up on here.

So myself and Leon pressed on through Bradford on Avon to Sally Boats at BoA marina.  Going through BoA lock there was the usual selection of tourists looking on.  Leon went ahead to sort out the lock assisted by a CRT volunteer.

We lashed the boats together and I steered them in to the lock side by side.  This was the first time I'd done this and I was surprised at the manoeuvrability.

There was a boat coming down so we were able to plough on, Leon leading the way.

We pitched up on the canal just before BoA marina as we needed to suss out where they wanted to moor.  It was pretty shallow and on leaving this mooring I managed to get stuck!  So with lots of reversing, standing on the off towpath side and getting a passing boater to give the boat a shove with a pole I managed to get unstuck.

View of the marina from the pub, the dry dock is the small shed next to the big one.

My and Leon's temporary moorings.  

I was first up for blacking.  All the anodes were up for replacement too as you can see from the pictutre below.

Bradford on Avon was a lovely town with lots going on and it has an obvious local boaty contingent that makes you feel right at home.  While we were in BoA another boating friend bought his boat up to BoA and moored in town and then up to where we moored on the canal in one of the above pictures.  It was good fun to have a contingent of friends from the marina out on the canal together and you couldn't ask for better company.

Also I would like to thank the team at Sally Boats for there hard work and helpfulness.  They were very accommodating and willing to do other small jobs that needed doing on the boats.  THANKS! :)