We picked the right day for it as it was dry apart from one very short light shower. Today (Sunday) it has been raining all day. Here is motor Kestrel breasted up to butty Verbena ...
... and here are Nuneaton and Brighton coming in to tie up.
This was expertly done, motor Nuneaton coming in to be held bow against the bank, while butty Brighton, with a little residual forward motion, being coaxed down the right side of Nuneaton until it was itself against the bank. And a boat came past while this was going on; the crews getting on with it in an unflustered manner.
Oops - Archimedes and Ara across the cut, their stern line having come adrift.
Oh - Formula One commentator Martin Brundle has just pointed out that "race car" read backwards is "race car". (The Canadian Grand Prix has been stopped for over an hour for torrential rain.) Coincidentally the odometer on our Volvo 240 read palindromically on the way to Stoke Bruerne.
Must go - the race has restarted.
More from Stoke Bruerne tomorrow.
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