Mably to Roanne

7 kms, 1 lock, 1.25 hrs

The last leg and we are now back in our home port of Roanne.

Last lock

Looking across the huge port to the town

The small marina next to the Port Captain's office where we have a berth.

Warm and sultry today: 17C when we left Mably at 10.00, with intermittent sunshine, and 20 C when we stopped an hour and 15 minutes later with dark threatening clouds building overhead.  We squeezed into our allotted mooring, stern onto the dock because the wind was picking up and wanted to have our bow into the wind and current.  Just as I was starting to do a spot of deck, hull and fender cleaning the rain came down – for once it didn’t happen when we were in the lock! 

And that's it for 2019.  We have 3 days to winterise the boat then we head back home until next spring.

1n 5 weeks:

370 kms, mostly backwards and forwards across the same stretch of water between Decize and Vanneaux

83 locks

72.3 engine hours