Timelapse: Radcot Lock to Clifton Hampden

Continuing the series of timelapse films I made of our adventures on the Thames in 2010, this 6' 45" film sees us dashing to Clifton Hampden en route to the IWA Festival at Beale Park.

To run over the story again: Our propeller had just been refitted but we were now seriously behind schedule. The original intention had been to get to the head of navigation at Inglesham, and then go down to the IWA Festival at Beale Park by the Friday evening. But today was Saturday and Inglesham was seven miles and three locks from where we were at Radcot Bridge; there and back would take approximately six hours. The festival was already under way; we'd paid for our moorings and wrist bands. We'd have to forgo Inglesham and steam down to Beale Park, the other side of Goring, and try to get there for the Boaters' Christian Fellowship service at 1030 on Sunday.

We got away from Radcot Bridge at 0915 on Saturday 28th August 2010, five minutes after the prop-fitting engineer had left. Despite our tight (revised) schedule we stopped to help a boater try to find a metal cap he'd managed to sweep off his counter into the river at Culham Lock. I'm usually pretty good at recovering ferrous objects with my Sea Searcher but had to give up after 20 minutes. The film shows us tying up in the gloom at Clifton Hampden (at 2045).

• Radcot Lock (0.05)

• Old Man's Bridge (0.11)
• Rushey Lock (0.28)
• Tadpole Bridge (0.40)
• we get stuck behind an extremely slow hireboat (0.43)
• Tenfoot Bridge (0.57)
• Shifford Lock (1.09)
• Newbridge (1.37)
• Hart's Footbridge (1.45)
• Northmoor Lock (1.52)
• Bablock Hythe, scene of the first prop disaster (2.11)
• Pinkhill Lock (2.29)
• Swinford Bridge (2.46)
• Eynsham Lock (2.47)
• King's Lock (3.12)
• Thames Bridge (3.23)
• Godstow Bridge (3.24)
• Godstow Lock (3.26)
• Medley Footbridge (or "Reduce Speed") (3.39)
• Osney Bridge (3.47)
• Osney Lock (3.54)
• Osney Railway Bridge (3.59)
• Folly Bridge (we went through the south channel) (4.04)
• Donnington Road Bridge (4.10)
• Iffley Lock (4.14)
• Isis Bridge (4.26)
• Kennington Railway Bridge (4.28)
• Sandford Lock (oh, what a surprise) (4.36)
• Nuneham Railway Bridge (5.03)
• Abingdon Lock (5.13)
• Abingdon Bridge (5.23)
• Culham Lock (5.39)
• Sutton Bridge (5.57)
• fishing for a skin tank cap (05.58)
• Appleford Railway Bridge (6.15)
• Clifton Lock (6.25)
• tying up at Clifton Hampden (6.36)