Set off about 9.15 and immediately paired up with another boat who noticed a change of crew since Thatcham.
John and Gavin left at lock 60 to go and look round the Crofton pumping station. I carried on and they caught up with me a few locks further on .
However there was a problem ahead. A hydraulic paddle was stuck up on lock 56 so we had to wait below lock 57.
The level in the pound below lock 57 was already low, but when another boat started coming up lock 58 we got stuck at an alarming angle. Eventually, as the pound above was full, the two boats waiting in 57 went up, which got us afloat again, and we went into the lock to wait. Had lunch on board whilst waiting in the lock.
A man from BW managed to get the offending paddle down and we all started to make our way through this lock using just the one paddle.
Moored for the night at Pewsey and went to the French Horn to eat. It is a Wadworths pub run by an Australian couple, and they did some good food.
We were inteding to go to the Coopers Arms in the village, but as we left the French Horn it started to rain. So we went straight back to the boat and watched Pirates of the Caribbean II.
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