Wednesday 25th June.

8.15 am. Set off from All Oaks Wood a few boats had set off before us, as we arrived at the swing bridge at Stretton Stop we were catching up with them. Fortunately they were not going as slow as yesterdays crawlers and we cruised at a fair speed.

10.45 am. Arrived at Hawksbury Junction, we were at the tail of a convoy of six boats, plus two boats already there. So we had to wait a bit.

11.30 We left Hawksbury and sailed off without  any boats visible in front.

12.00 Past the entrance to the Ashby canal. shortly after that we saw a white cruiser in front, but he was going a fair pace and disappeared after a while.

We were cracking on, going around a sharp bend the white cruiser was coming towards us completely on our side, although there was plenty of room to pass us he went full speed astern bow to bow with us!! had he looked around to his rear he would have seen a 60 ft. narrowboat steaming up behind him. The narrow boat went into full astern and jammed across the canal, the cruiser then went into forward gear and shot off passed us.

 No damage done just a bit shocked. We then got behind the two slow boats that we were behind yesterday, fortunately we only had two mile to go to our planned mooring at Springwood Haven.
Just three and a bit miles to the top of Atherstone Locks.
Then a long rest in the sunshine.