Here I am Rune
Distance 5.4 miles
Total 666 Locks 26 Tunnels
Running total mileage 1009.2 miles
Decided to stop short of Wrenbury at Tomason’s Bridge for
the night. Not a bad day’s travel, 10 locks and 5.4 miles so 15.4 ‘lock miles’.
The locks on this section of canal are a bit more challenging than the average lock as they all have quite
strong by-weir’s that tend to throw you off course either as your enter or as
you emerge from a lock. The pound below Grindley Brook Staircase is a case in
point, the mooring is on a sharp left hand corner but the by-weir is on the
right hand side and with a considerable flow, tends to such the boat towards
it. In the middle pound of the three locks below the staircase the problem is
more for people going up as the very strong by-weir throws them out of line
when trying to enter the lock, a Canaltime boat narrowly missed colliding with
the side of the lock as he tried to enter it.
Think we have probably got one more full day on the
Llangollen Canal before re-entering the Shropshire Union on Wednesday, which
will be the 1st of October, where has the year gone?
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