Radar Love

We left early from our Maidenhead mooring, partly because we were awake early due to noisy trains on the bridge, but mainly Baz did not want to pay the £8.00 for such a poor mooring spot.
We tackled the first large lock ourselves as the lockies had not started work, in total we have done 6 locks and 17 miles of river. We did get into a bit of a race out of one of the locks, we needed to pass a narrow boat that was going too slow for us to maintain good steerage, and two cruisers wanted to get past the both of us, cue the river authority with their radar gun, I don't know the result, I tucked in behind one of the rather large cruisers and hope we are all ok, a speeding ticket on a narrow boat....... come on!

Large gaff with flag in Windsor

Another bridge, this time in Windsor

Ali looked on enviously as we past the shops

The boats are getting bigger, luckily so is the river

A view astern as we pull away from another boat

Our Mooring Tonight

Up river, nice Dutch barge for a neighbour

 View down river, we hope to moor at Hampton court tomorrow

We are now about 10 miles shy of the the tidal Thames, we won't be able to do the full  " under Tower bridge thing " this time, as we still are not VHF radio trained ( booked for the  26 th )  but they will allow us on as far as Brentford, where we will pick up the Grand Union canal, looking like we will give the centre a miss and start to work our way north again, as we try to work out where the winter stoppages are going to be, and where we want to be, when the cold season that we won't talk about arrives. 

Bye for now
Baz and Ali