Thursday 11th June

North Haw to Brookwood

Set off at 9.15 and turned into the Basingstoke Canal to get to the Woodham bottom lock at 930. We were greeted by Matt who had opened all the locks in the first flight for us. As there was another boat coming down we were able to leave all the locks open for them. After the 6 locks in the flight we carried through Woking to the sanitary station opposite the Bridge Barn pub where I emptied the loo and we got some water. The other boat was here taking a rest here, an unusual wooden boat with a single cylinder Gardner. Before we have completely filled with water we set off to get to St John's bottom lock at 130. We did not see Matt again and now we had to empty all the locks behind us. After going through locks 9 and 10 we were unable to shut the top gates so we informed the Canal centre.  Stopped briefly above the top lock to check the local shops,  there was a Coop there. Then we carried on to the water point in Brookwood park where we completed filling up with water. On the way to the pub we checked the moorings near Brookwood bottom lock but these were so bad that we decided to stay put. Andy and I had a pint in the pub. Again no dogs allowed inside and the beer was very average. We returned to Jacob where we had a barbecue then we all went back to the pub for another average pint.