Peartree FOTRN Moorings

Last night  we ate the The Falcon in Fotheringhay.   The menu was based on traditional pub food but the specials included some more adventurous dishes.  Denise had steak and Kidney Pie whilst I enjoyed brown shrimp and crab linguini.  Both were very good,and  were well complemented by a couple of glasses of local beer.

Fottheringhay Church gfom the river

Denise operating Perio Lock

We knew today was going to be a long journey as there are few moorings in this stretch of the Nene.  Fortunately yesterdays wind had died down and the weater was sunny but cool as we left our moorings at Fotheringhay Castle. We passed by the church and took a photo as we do every time we visit and cruised on to Perio Lock which is manually operated.  The photo shows Denise turning the large flywheel used to raise and lower the heavy guillotine gate.

Then onwards past Oundle through the agricultural scenery of the Middle Nene, pleasant though t not as attractive as the Lower Nene near Peterborough.  After 6 locks we arrived at Wavenhoe where in previous years we have moored at the excellent Kings Head.  Sadly this has now closed and its future is unclear. 

Add captionMoored at Peartree FOTRN Moorings

A mile beyond Wavenhoe we moored at the Peartree Moorings run by FOTRN.  Friends of The River Nene are a memebrship organisation set up to work with local land ownerst to create new moorings for boaters travelling on the Nene.

Statistics: 11.97miles, 7 Locks, 6 hours 10 mins cruising