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Date: Wednesday 12th May 2010

Location: Roydon, Essex

Miles today: 2 -- Locks today: 2 -- Total miles: 2495  -- Total Locks: 1627

Slight change of plan. Had a call with my son Glenn shortly after setting off this morning, unfortunately he is unable to visit tomorrow due to final year university exams. As there is now no need to be in Harlow tomorrow, we decided to moor up at Roydon and have a look around.

We met a boat at Brick Lock, photo below. It is all electric, relying on solar panels and a bank of batteries to drive the electric motor. The owner said that it only does around 1.5 MPH but it can run for fifteen hours on a fully charged set of batteries and longer on a sunny day.

Current mooring

Roydon

Dusk on the Lee

Dusk

Interesting boat

Boat

Brick Lock

Brick

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Brick Lock Cottage

Brick

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Free range chickens, Roydon

chickens

Electric boat - powered by batteries and solar panels

boat

Hard at work !!!!

Work

Good job well done ......

Good Job

Roydon Mill

Roydon Mill

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