Day 8 That's Better!

Today has been a much more civilized day.  We awoke at about 10am :-) All the other boats on the March town moorings had gone.  Due mainly to the fact that they were from the local hire base and were siting out their last night 1 mile from the hire company.  At £200 a day this has to be one of the most expensive nights moorings in the country.  Heaven knows what it costs to over run your hire period!

Throughout the week we came across the same family on our trip.  Sure the were nice enough people, but HIS boatman ship was disastrous. Now' I am no expert, but I very quickly realized long ago that in a boat weighing 17 tons that slowly and gently were the key elements in safe and effective passage.  He on the other hand had the mindset that full power was the way. It's not, and never will be. We came upon him on a mooring where there were some Plastic, Tupperware, or if you prefer GRP boats.  Now, like Scissor, Paper, Stone so it is with boats.  Steel V's GRP.  Steel WILL win.  Its no wonder the chap with the GRP boat was justly pissed of by the hire boat hitting him in a botched attempt to moor on FULL power.  T'was entertaining for us to watch, accept for the fact we were holding station until he had finished so we could slip in behind him, which we did without incident.  Unfortunately we got the wroth of the GRP owner for being a narrowboat to the tune of F*cking narrowboats, F*cking hire boats, F*cking amateurs F*cking this and F*cking that.  So we let the dogs out which further f*cked him of and he promptly left.  I think its like penis envy, the problem GRP boat owners have.  Mine is longer than his :-)

Our cruise today was back to our beautiful home mooring at Bill Fen, Ramsey.  About 4 hours in all from March.  

As a novelty for August weather it remained dry.......... Just!  We were back and tied on not more than 1/2 hour and the heavens opened with thunder, lightening, and a rainstorm that would wake the dead.  Not that we were bothered, we had taken to our bed for a very late afternoon kip.  We woke a 8pm which is why I am blogging at 1.30 in the morning.

So all in all a very enjoyable week.

This was our entire route out and then back..................

Best route from Ramsey to Jesus Green Lock

Middle Level Navigations (Ramsey High Lode)
From Ramsey to:
	Saunder's Bridge Junction of Old River Nene and Ramsey High Lode	1 mile, 1 flg, 0 locks	(total 1 mile, 1 flg, 0 locks)
Middle Level Navigations (Old River Nene)
From Saunder's Bridge to:
	Well's Bridge Junction of Old River Nene and Forty Foot River	0 miles, 7 flg, 0 locks	(total 2 miles, 0 flg, 0 locks)
Middle Level Navigations (Forty Foot River)
From Well's Bridge to:
	Chatteris Road Bridge A141 road	6 miles, 0 flg, 0 locks	(total 8 miles, 0 flg, 0 locks)
	Sixteen Foot Corner Junction of Forty Foot and Sixteen Foot Rivers	1 mile, 6 flg, 0 locks	(total 9 miles, 6 flg, 0 locks)
	Horseway Village Bridge B1098 road	0 miles, 2 flg, 0 locks	(total 10 miles, 0 flg, 0 locks)
	Welches Dam Sluice Junction of Forty Foot River with the Old Bedford River	2 miles, 0 flg, 2 locks	(total 12 miles, 0 flg, 2 locks)
River Great Ouse (Old Bedford River)
From Welches Dam Sluice to:
	Delph Bridge Welney Village (A1101 road)	6 miles, 0 flg, 0 locks	(total 18 miles, 0 flg, 2 locks)
	Salter's Lode Junction Junction of Well Creek with Great Ouse and Old Bedford River	6 miles, 2 flg, 0 locks	(total 24 miles, 2 flg, 2 locks)
River Great Ouse (New Bedford River)
From Salter's Lode Junction to:
	Denver Junction Junction of Old West River and New Bedford River	0 miles, 3 flg, 0 locks	(total 24 miles, 5 flg, 2 locks)
River Great Ouse (Old West River)
From Denver Junction to:
	Denver Sluice	0 miles, ½ flg, 0 locks	(total 24 miles, 5½ flg, 2 locks)
	River Wissey Junction Junction of River Wissey with Old West River	1 mile, 1½ flg, 1 lock	(total 25 miles, 7 flg, 3 locks)
	Brandon Creek Junction Junction of Little Ouse or Brandon River with Old West River	5 miles, 5 flg, 0 locks	(total 31 miles, 4 flg, 3 locks)
	River Lark Junction Junction of River Lark with Old West River	5 miles, 3 flg, 0 locks	(total 36 miles, 7 flg, 3 locks)
	Ely	4 miles, 1 flg, 0 locks	(total 41 miles, 0 flg, 3 locks)
	Soham Lode Junction	2 miles, 0 flg, 0 locks	(total 43 miles, 0 flg, 3 locks)
	Pope's Corner Junction of River Cam with Old West River	1 mile, 3 flg, 0 locks	(total 44 miles, 3 flg, 3 locks)
River Cam (main river)
From Pope's Corner to:
	Upware Junction with Burwell Lode	3 miles, 1 flg, 0 locks	(total 47 miles, 4 flg, 3 locks)
	Swaffham Lode Junction Junction of Swaffham Lode with River Cam	2 miles, 2 flg, 0 locks	(total 49 miles, 6 flg, 3 locks)
	Clayhythe Bridge Waterbeach village half a mile northwest	2 miles, 4 flg, 1 lock	(total 52 miles, 2 flg, 4 locks)
	Fen Ditton	3 miles, 0 flg, 1 lock	(total 55 miles, 2 flg, 5 locks)
	Jesus Green Lock Moor for Cambridge just below this lock	2 miles, 6 flg, 0 locks	(total 58 miles, 0 flg, 5 locks)

Total distance is 58 miles, 0 flg and 5 locks.