Jena had to be moved up to Lea Bridge, Operational Moorings, by the Middlesex Filter Beds, so that she could be used to train a half dozen more skippers for the Trust. RE, RB and I met at Little Venice at 9am to start our journey through London.
Locking down through Camden.
RB hasn't had as much time on Jena as RE and myself, so this was an opportunity for him to gain more familiarity with this wide-beamed behemoth.
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| A pleasant time, just boating. |
Tricky passing sometimes.
In East London the density of mooring tends to an extreme, with the view ahead through bridges often obscured by wide-beams and breasted narrowboats moored rather close to the bridge holes. Double mooring also means lines are sometimes left looser than might otherwise be expected. We had to take great care, and had a bunch of fenders in place in case we might graze any other vessel.
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| Duck-confusing apparatus. |
At Acton's lock and at Old Ford Lock No 8 new anti-crossing measures have been added to the weirs. These are a mat of plastic spikes that deter people from trying to cross the weir and arrest any rubbish flowing over the weir. There should be more of these around, they're replacing the spiked rollers that have previously been seen around the system.
At last we passed through the Hertford Union, negotiating the low water at the second pound by staying very much in the central channel. Then a short cruise up the Lee to the Lea Bridge Moorings.
8 hours.
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