Foxton locks/GUC

A bright, slightly windy morning meant we could finally leave our moorings for an attempt at Foxton locks. A gongoozler's paradise, Foxton are 2 sets of 5 single staircase locks with a passing place at the halfway stage. Fortunately, there are 4 lock keepers present every day to help avoid disasters.

In typical Brunoboat blogger fashion we ran out of water on the lower staircase but one of the lock keepers managed to rescue us by filtering water down from the top staircase, which slowed our progress considerably. Each lock has gate paddles painted red and ground paddles painted white. The rule is "red before White is alright. White before red and you're dead". The White paddles are connected to side ponds which can be used to top-up water in the locks and visa-versa.

Through Husbands Bosworth tunnel ( high, dry and wide x 1170yards ) and filled up with 232 litres of diesel at North Kilworth Wharf, plus a bag of coal and  calor gas.

Our evening mooring

Foxton locks and statue