The River Wey has some of the hardest locks on the whole system, with New Haw featuring up near the top. The lock arms are low, short and canted 45 degrees, whilst the gates rub at the bottom and are incredibly heavy as the spindles aren’t vertical.

and that’s New Haw done ! Weybridge town lock is much easier, but has an obscured entrance, check nobody’s coming first.

Penny and Iris joined us last night at Worsfold Gates. Today we’ve gone past the Marina, with hot showers and flushing toilets, to Dapdune Wharf. We must be committed narrowboaters !