French Canals – Friday Morning

We had an early start so that we could get to the boatyard for some more fuel this morning.

All was well though the first automatic lock, but when we got to the second one, the gates didn’t open. After a while, the lock keeper appeared, pushed some buttons and all was fine. It turned out that another boat had snuck in front of us and had taken our place…

We continued down to Briare with no further problems until we got to the last set of automatic locks at 1150. As it was his lunchtime in 10 minutes, the lock keeper made us wait for an hour – he would only have needed to push one button…

Still we got here in the end, only to be told we didn’t need any more fuel anyway!

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