Past Where it all Started

We stopped off for supplies at Tesco in Leighton Buzzard. After lunch we passed the base of Wyvern Shipping company. You could say that is where it all started, as that is where my first canal holiday began with my parents in 1976. We went as far as Harefield and then back again.

At home at Wyvern Shipping was the Ocean Princess, the sea-going narrowboat built for the owner of the Wyvern Shipping company, James Griffin.









The last but one lock of the day was a trifle traumatic as we managed to hang Syncopation up on the lock side as the water level dropped. I could see the angle of the boat increasing as the water dropped. I shouted to Cathy to drop the paddles and she started doing so. As she reached the paddles on the other side of the lock I could hear crockery falling off the worktop. The boat slipped off the snag on the lock side just as the second paddle was closed. I was pretty sure the boat would come off the snag on the lock side as it was a double width lock and Syncopation was the only boat in the lock but it was a worry until she did.






Syncopation at Leighton Buzzard









Fenny Stratford Lock







Total distance is 20 miles, 0 flg and 8 locks.

Moored at New Bradwell.