Goodbye Newark

Newark to Farndon Marina, River Trent, 3 miles 1 lock

After over a week at Newark we finally were on our way again. We totally enjoyed our stay there and the BW people were excellent, updating us on water levels etc, wonderful people in that office at Newark!

Yesterday we had our Boat Safety Certificate given for another 4 years, No Problem had no problem passing with flying colours, not one thing wrong at all, we were very relieved. Four years is a long time between checks as they keep updating the 'rules', but we had already had some BSC work done on the boat when it was surveyed before we bought her. We did quite a lot of work at that time with safety stuff that the surveyor had found that wouldn't pass the next inspection.

I went off to London yesterday to meet daughter Wendie and to pick up granddaughter Kiera, who is spending some time with us at the back end of her school holidays. We spent most of this morning doing what grandmas do to granddaughters..... spoiling them!

This afternoon we left for Farndon Marina in all of a panic, when I realised that Vic was not on the front of the boat when he shoved off, and the back going away from the pontoon rather quickly in the flow of the water. I still had hold of the back rope thank goodness, and managed to drag the back in for him to jump on. The flow wanted to take the front end round downstream, so we had to work fast, phew he was on...... but oh no! There was Lucy still on the pontoon looking at us!!

So reversed back downstream before going back into the pontoon to pick her up. Now we were ALL aboard!

The flow against was quite fast and we made slow progress to Farndon Marina, glad really to just do a few miles, I was shattered after a days travelling yesterday and a day today with a 6 year old.