We slept late while docked in Le Chesne, then walked up to the boulangerie so we could have their incredible croissants for breakfast with coffee. We made our way back towards Pont à Bar. It’s very early in the season, and they put new controls in the locks—which unfortunately are not working correctly on three of the locks. We’ve become friends with Fred, the maintenance man from the Canal Authority who has driven out for two days to the locks that aren’t working so he can manually open and close them for us. A lot of wildlife today.

Back to Pont à Bar for the evening after spending several hours working on a leaking water pump on the engine. Everything is fixed and tomorrow we head out onto the Meuse River and towards Verdun.