A long, cold, wet day today. We locked out onto the river at 8:00. This was just as the tide was rising, the idea being that this would push us up river all the way to Cromwell, so avoiding the overnight stop at Torksey. Well it certainly pushed us! At times we were doing just over 9mph. Unfortunately the weather was awful. It started off cold and raining. The rain eased off after the first couple of hours, but the cold wind continued all day. Navigation was made “interesting” by swirling currents, lots of floating debris and loaded gravel barges bearing down on us (one of them as we were passing under a bridge!)
Unfortunately, partly because of the weather, and partly because we were too busy! we didnt take any photos. Below is us ascending Cromwell lock to get off the tidal stretch. The lockie said that the incoming flow would be “a bit vicious”. He wasnt exagerating.