northampton

Waiting to enter Abington Lock with Morning Mist

Moored in Northampton Marina

Job for today - a final push to reach Northampton where we are booked in for the Festival of Water.  We set off early at 8am as rain was forecast for sometime in the afternoon.  Pretty quickly we met up with Morning Mist again and accompanied them for the 5 miles and 6 locks to Northampton.  The journey was straightforward and the wooded scenery enjoyable although we did have some problems with the large amount of floating weed in the water.   The final 3 locks were all of the traditional lock gate design and so much faster to operate than the guillotine locks used for most of the river.  We reached Northampton marina at 1pm after filling up with water and pumping-out.

We decided to pay £10 to spend the first night in the marina as the public moorings at Town Quay were getting full.  In the afternoon we walked to the nearby Morrisons to stock up with the foodl needed for our stay as our allocated Festival mooring is some way from any shops.

Tomorrow we will move back onto the River to our allocated mooring.  Probably no more blog entries until our journey restarts on Tuesday.