Wednesday 24th May.
I woke up to a brilliant day in Stoke,
with the sun shining and warm already at 07.30. After chatting with various
people on the tow path, I managed to find time to have breakfast, put some
washing in soak and write this up after two days, before lunch.
Sealing up the solar vent and Houdini
hatch was next on the list, now that the weather was dry. As usual, Capt.
Tolly’s Creaping Crack Cure was on hand to do the job and a couple of
applications should make both waterproof once again. I laid the wet wrung out
washing on the hot cabin top to dry, with mooring chains to keep them in place.
The cabin top was too hot to touch, so the washing was dry in an hour or so.
I also washed off the top bend, which had
received severe scraping at Uxbridge when the wind was blowing me onto the off
side high sides. I intend touching up the paint later, even though I am now
without the paint catalyst; I think it will go off in the hot weather without
it – we shall see.
Later Kathryn invited me for a meal at
The Navvy, which was two steaks and a bottle of Hardy’s Shiraz for £20, which was very good, but too many
chips for me, as usual.
Thursday 25th May
I watered up before leaving Stoke and
moved off about 09.30, having said cheerio to Kathryn and thanked her for the
meal last night. I was thinking of mooring at Gayton Junction, but there were
no moorings available, a lot of them moored up were continuous moorers, moving
from one 14 day mooring to the next and then back again. Once again, it was one
of the hottest days of the year so far. It must be time to break out the shorts
and sandals!
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More fine adjustments to the skin tank
cooling on the way, which involved stopping on a straight section and lifting the
boards above the engine and lightly tapping the tap with the windlass; it has
to be about right now!
I found a mooring close to Bridge 24 at
Weedon and was trying to think of what was there. I found myself talking to a
local, who had a mooring, but no boat yet. When he described the shops and pubs,
it all came back to me from last year, when I stopped here for one night http://nbstronghold.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/.
I later had a walk to The Malters Arms,
which was rather noisy. I also updated the NBT Pubs database, with the
addresses of The Malsters and The Plume of Feathers. Looking in on the Weedon Ordnance
Depot, I realised that I could now walk in freely, as there were retail
businesses in some of the buildings. Further investigation to the end of the
estate is now possible, so I may well do that later.
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