Saturday

Shireoaks to Clarborough

Left Shireoaks shortly after 10am. Very windy which made turning left out of the marina interesting. Caught up with another boat that had left one hour earlier. He was single handed, so having helped him through one lock he let us overtake.

Moored below Town Lock in Worksop and went to the Mallard for lunch, two different beers and a £1 roll.

Caught up with the single handed boater again at Forest Locks. He stopped below the upper middle lock and we carried on through Retford to Clarborough. Moored outside the Gate Inn. They only had Adnams bitter on, which tasted odd when served through a sparkler. Food was running late and one of the meals did not come with the extra potatoes.

Ian was not feeling well so he went to bed early. Andy and I were going to go the other pub but it started to rain so we just had another in the Gate.