Today we reached Newbury and found a mooring on the short stretch between the swing bridge and the town lock. Nicely aground though so that passing boats do not disturb us. Guess what! Pluto has just arrived. . . . Now we've got their mooring sorted I'll continue. I do not understand BW canal water management. The pound at Kintbury was low, the pound below lower still and the one before Copse Lock even lower. Copse Lock, just before the river enters, is one of these leave empty jobs, so the lock at the end of the line is taking double the water if there is a random sequence of odd boats going up and down. How is it that a river navigation which had weirs overflowing higher up before Bedwyn has no water lower down? A stifling day, very humid and a thunderstorm about to hit.
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