Blow the wind southerly (Please!)

Static at Cromwell lock awaiting the dying down of the wind, or at very least a lessening. Chatting to the lockkeeper, hearing more tales of money wasted by BW on various ill researched projects and of the mad cap ideas of middle management, including one manager that thought high and low tides occurred at the same times each day! Walking around the lock area, we saw a transit ‘welfare unit’,which is apparently another health and safety over the top requirement for workers away from a building or permanent site. The sign on the outside of the driver’s door made me smile, the sign is reproduced above. The early evening was spent on board Martlet in company with Roger and Lynn from cruiser Serene moored on the other side of the pontoon. They are going to Torksey and locking through to their home moorings in the morning. They have a 150BHP Volvo Penta diesel and will be leaving about 9am. If we go tomorrow, with our 38BHP Barrus Shire, we will need to wait until 11ish.