Things did not go according to plan...

...but do they ever? Moved the barge less than a third of a mile to her new temporary mooring and, despite assurances on the depths, we ran aground just short of the shore. Andy tried to use the bow thruster to clear the sandbank blocking our path but, unfortunately, something foreign and unfriendly caused the bow thruster to make terrible grinding noises.

For the time being we have dropped back onto the lock layby moorings to review the situation.