Rangali Adventures: Clamecy to Chatel-Censoir

Monday 23^rd September

Clamecy to Chatel-Censoir
18km 8 locks

Well, we stayed 5 nights in the end at Clamecy. We really liked the town, we moored where we could have electric and water, plus there was free wifi. On Thursday Amarok arrived so we had a three great evenings with them, one dinner onboard with us, one dinner onboard Amarok and then we had a cheese and wine evening last night on Rangali and Glynwen and Roger (a really friendly couple) from another Piper boat called Etholle also joined us. At one point at the port there were more Piper barges than any other make of boat!

We had glorious weather over the weekend, so we caught up on things like washing the boat, painting the wood work with UV filter wood stain, a few walks around the town and surrounding area. We went to the market on Saturday, which was quite a small market, a little disappointing. It was fun every morning and afternoon watching the hire boats leave and arrive, as it is a favorite stopping place.

Clamecy

Kev busy painting the woodwork in readiness for the winter, one job off the list

Marcia and Charlie busy bees onboard Amarok

A nice surprise to see Etholle arrive though the lock at Clemacy

Three Piper Boats

We set off this morning at 9.30am, we did think that we’d wait until the hire boats had moved off but unusually no one left this morning at 9am, so we quickly decided to go to be in front of them for the day.

We had a lovely days cruising, the canal is really pretty, the sunshine does help though. We had all the (8) locks to ourselves, and all the locks were in our favour and they are still going down, so very easy.

Chatel-Censoir is a pretty town on a hill, with a boulangerie, café/tabac, mini supermarket, but all very quiet. The mooring is by our next lock and there is a Le Boat centre here so lots of hire boats arriving and leaving. With the weather being so nice we will be having a BBQ tonight. Forecast is good for the next few days. The mornings now are very cool but once the sun breaks through the mist it soon warms up.