Wednesday 24 August 2011

1000 miles !!!

Today we reached the 1,000  mile mark on our travels, and there is still so much of the canal system for us to visit. We have decided a nice bottle of red will be opened tonight to mark the occasion.

We are still on target to reach Stourbridge for Saturday night, in fact we might reach there on Friday. We have moored at the end of the Shroppie, ready to go down the Staffs and Worcester tomorrow. It is just under a year since last time we headed south on the Staffs and Worcester but this time we will not be travelling the full length but diverting onto the Stourbridge Canal at Stourton.

Today was a fairly easy day for me, only one lock, although I did have to rescue a boat that had come loose from it's moorings, twice! The first time it was it's stern rope that was adrift and it was blocking the canal just above Wheaton Aston Lock, we were waiting to come up the lock so I went and helped pole it back across the canal and retie it's rear line. I should have thought to check the front rope! By the time the boat that was waiting to go down had descended and we had ascended, it was across the canal again, firmly secured by the stern but adrift at the front.  A judicious nudge from Morgana and a bit of manoeuvring managed to bring the boat closer into the bank so Ray, assisted by another boater, managed to haul it in and retie the front rope.  Apart from that it was an uneventful journey.

Today's journey 14.8 miles, 1 lock and 1 tunnel

So far this year we have travelled 274.7miles, 180 locks, 31 lift bridges and 7 tunnels

Since Ray retired we have travelled 1010.1 miles, 825 locks, 55 swing bridges, 35 lift bridges and 32 tunnels

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