Jump Starting Faramir
We are still heading south on the Oxford Canal, through beautiful countryside. There are fairly frequent locks, but they are scattered, so you go through them one at a time with some motoring in between. We went through one of the deepest narrow locks on the system today, twelve feet. Any deeper than that and the paddles would be under too much pressure to crank up easily and the gates too heavy to move. The old lock keeper’s cottage is…