By the time of the 2002 Three Mills Rally, dredging of the once-semi-tidal loop of the Bow Back Rivers had started but hadn't been finished. So once again an attempt was made to pass round the loop in a number of craft. Only canoes completed the whole loop. Two groups of narrowboats made the attempt from the two ends of the loop.
I'm not sure quite how far the northern group got, but this picture shows Laburnum Boat Club's nb Opportunity near Carpenter's Road Lock, at the junction of the Old River Lee and City Mill River.