Some stats

The three week trip we've just completed was of course only part of our summer cruise, thanks to the extra week we managed to grab in August in order to travel down to London.  Briar Rose then had three weeks at High Line Yachting on the Slough Arm, and we had the best part of a week at Paddington Basin before setting off again.

We left our home marina on 1 August, and returned on 28 September.  In that time, we covered 407 miles, and passed through 312 locks (which, by the way, doesn't include the open flood locks on the Wey).

We travelled on the following waterways:

• Grand Union
• GU Aylesbury Arm
• GU Slough Arm
• GU Paddington Arm
• Regent's Canal
• Hertford Union Canal
• Lee Navigation
• Stort Navigation
• River Thames
• River Wey and Godalming Navigations

Ignore the day marks; I've set it to show as few as possible.

This was a route with lots of dead ends.  We turned around in seven places:

• Aylesbury
• Slough
• Paddington (twice)
• Hertford
• Bishop's Stortford
• Godalming
• Cliveden reach

I think it's also the first time we've done a trip involving four navigation authorities:

• Canal and River Trust
• Port of London
• Environment Agency
• National Trust