Here I am Rune
Distance 4.1 miles
Total 578 Locks 19 Tunnels
Running total mileage 872.7 miles
Well, as planned we got to Engine Lock and if we’d been a
little bit earlier we could possibly have carried on out through Stoke. We were
however held up by a huge ‘raft’ of weed blocking the canal as we approached Engine
Lock and having spent probably 40 minutes dealing with it decided that
continuing was no longer an option. At this time of year we often come across
small weed ‘islets’ that have broken away from the canal bank and are drifting
in the waterway, but this one was an absolute monster. I would guess that our
boat weighs about 18 tons but when we ran into this weed raft we came pretty
much to a halt. Managed to push the raft for about 50 meters along the canal
then reversed off it and squeezed through but it is clearly going to present
problems when it gets to Engine Lock so I have e-mailed Canal and River Trust
to advise them of the problem.
Tomorrow we should get to Westport Park in Stoke on Trent
with the Harecastle Tunnel to look forward to on Thursday.
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| The junction between the Leek and Froghall Sections |
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| Our 'monster' raft of weed |
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