We headed out of Clarence Dock about 9.00. The locks on the Leeds and Liverpool have some unfamiliar paddle gear but we soon got to grips with it. Compared to the Rochdale and the manual locks on the Calder these locks seem easy to manage. We have still been travelling breasted up, but may have to stop that soon as the canal gets a little narrow in places and it would be better to be able to take the centre of the channel with both boats. Even today we had a problem at one lock where one gate wouldn't open fully so we had to unhitch Almyne and I took her up into the next lock as Chris had already walked on to set it ready for us. The run out of Leeds didn't seem too bad, The graffiti would have put me off the idea of stopping overnight anywhere but the canal doesn't seem to attract the sort of rubbish we encountered on the way out of Manchester. We did spot a couple of supermarket trollies near Morrisons.
We moored up for the night at Rodley, then Tim, Margaret and Nicholas came over and we went back to their place for dinner. Ray did a bit of sorting out of a couple of plumbing problems for them and then Tim, very kindly took us to Asda's for some shopping on the way back.
We are aiming to get to Keighley by Sunday so that we can use the launderette on Monday. There are time restrictions on some of the locks because of the water shortages. The fishing here seems good but as long as we can get away by lunchtime tomorrow we should get a decent bit of cruising done.
Today's journey 7 miles, 13 locks and 2 swing bridges.
So far we have travelled 334.8 miles, 372 locks, 14 swing bridges, 4 lift bridges and 9 tunnels.
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