After a morning of rushing around, visiting the doctor, picking up the prescription and another last minute shop, I was ready. Apart from the arrival of a couple of packages from Amazon. These eventually arrived and after a few farewells to friends, I eagerly hurried to the boat and cast off. There was very little boat traffic on the way to Braunston but there were quite a few moored up, so it took a little longer than usual as I always observe the rule to slow down when passing moored boats. This is normally tick-over speed, which on my boat, is around 1 – 2 mph. I turned left at…