Delivery Cruise Day 4

We were rudely awakened by boats trying to pass us. During the early morning the first two boats to pass dislodged the pin from the front mooring. Luckily our mooring pins have a loop at the top and I'd passed the mooring rope through these and the pin was easy to retrieve from the water. After a prompt start at 08:00 we continued southwards. There is a long lock-free stretch from Napton top lock for the next 11 miles to Claydon locks and this took most of the morning to cover.

Dominic and Cathy jumped ship at the first lock, Varney's to go home and fetch Ewan's car seat. I carried on single handed to bridge 153 in Cropredy, site of the famous Bridge stores, spotting the narrowboat Alnwick just before mooring on the 14 day moorings at the south of Cropredy.

Moored at Cropredy.

Total distance is 13 miles, 6½ flg and 9 locks.