Set off at 830 and passed Monks Lode and Great Raveley Drain, then at Nightingale Corner we turned towards Exhibition bridge. The air draught guage said 1.5m and we need 1.8m so we turned and backed up to it just to prove that we couldn't get through. We saw 3 MLC weed control boats heading that way.
Back through Lodes End lock where the water levels were equal ,then at Wells Bridge we turned onto the Forty Foot Drain.
At the third attempt we moored so that we could walk into Chatteris and go to the Walk the Dog pub. Here they had two good beers and we had a snack to go with them.
On the way back to the boat we popped into the Co-Op. Then we carried on along the Forty Foot to the junction with the Sixteen Foot Drain. I had been hoping to go down as far as Horseway Lock but it was too narrow to turn and also shallow and we had difficulty backing out.
So we went down the Sixteen Foot and managed to moor by the railway bridge at Stonea. Here the Golden Lion had 2 ales and food so we ate there.
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