ive just been reading through a cruise report from Lady Muck, and I have discovered what happened to our boat a couple of weeks ago when we came back to our boat to find it had moved up the canal a few meters...

apparently Lady Muck discovered a narrowboat adrift in the canal with a dinghy chained to it...with short ropes and no centreline... there's not many boats fit that description, especially i that location at that time in June...

SO the mystery is solved, somehow our boat came adrift, I have no idea how. whether someone untied us, or the stakes pulled out.

Im so glad it wasnt just left there, thanks to Lady Muck and crew for rescuing our wayward boat.