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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Weighing up the Wey
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I had an hour to kill near Guildford today, so I popped down to the River Wey near Shalford to have a look. This is one river we might take ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Looking back
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Well, its 7 months since we took ownership of Herbie, so I've been reviewing how its all going. Are we getting our money's worth? Ar...
Sunday, September 17, 2006
A series of posts reading down, not up
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Hello reader, thanks for coming back. We've been away on Herbie having quite an adventure, so here are a series of posts about what happ...
An alarming breakdown and a chance meeting with the guv'nor
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We were on our way from Iver to Paddington basin to collect our son Peter for a week's holiday cruise. Pete Higson, our "regular...
The Final Solution for the oil leak and a mooring at a film location.
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Although the stern gland and bearing now seemed to be behaving, I was still nervous over the whole breakdown affair and next morning I woke ...
We give a tow, then Peter takes the tiller.
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We headed off back towards Uxbridge next day with the intention of spending the evening at the General Elliot which had a board saying Quiz ...
Regents Park
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Next day arriving earlyish at Paddington we carried on past Little Venice, through the Maida Hill tunnel and into Regents Park. I can't ...
Solo Trip home
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Peter got his train back to Paddington on the last morning, so now it was just me having to take Herbie home. This was must first lengthy so...
Thursday, September 07, 2006
A couple of maintenance jobs and lessons learned.
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Looking forward to getting out on the boat again this weekend. We will be picking up son Peter at Paddington basin, and all being well embar...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Canyoning in Shropshire
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Last week we explored a waterway of a different sort. Light Spout Hollow is one of many valleys cutting into the Long Mynd in Shropshire. Th...
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Past times and a new arrival
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Its almost a year now since we took our epic(for us) trip to deliver our Richard's boat, Bankside, from Iver to Huntingdon. Looking back...
Monday, August 14, 2006
Boating at 10 times our usual speed
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We spent the day in Portsmouth last week and had an interesting journey to the Isle of Wight and back. Outwards we took the Fast Cat from Po...
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