Sunday 31 August 2014

Hazlehurst



Here I am Rune
Distance 2.9 miles
Total 557 Locks 19 Tunnels
Running total mileage 854.3miles

Another short day just back as far as Hazelhurst where the Caldon Canal splits to go to Froghall and Leek. Checked on these mooring on the way through to Leek and they looked quite good, although a bit windy. When we actujally come to moor on them however it appears that they are not as deep as they looked so we can’t really get the boat fully alongside. We are close in enough not to obstruct the canal but not as close in as I would have liked. Decided that this would be the best mooring point between Leek and Froghall since it would be quite a hard day’s push to do the whole lot in one day (10 miles and 8 locks) so we have made two ‘easy’ days of it. Having looked at internet photos of Froghall Tunnel I would say that we have no real chance of getting through it with top boxes on the boat, even without top boxes it would be very tight and it seems that quite a lot of people who go through end up scraping paint on the boat so we will probably moor this side of the tunnel.

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