Whelley

Here I am Rune

Distance 5 miles

Total 1197 Locks 68 Tunnels

Running total mileage 1706.3 miles

Well we’ve cleared the Wigan Flight and so now have about 9 miles without any locks to look forward to. Total of 25 locks and 5 miles of canal has been achieved today, rather pales into insignificance against the distance covered by a couple that we shared the second half of the Wigan flight with. The bloke on the helm said that they had started off in Lymm at 6am so if that is right by my reckoning they have done 30.3 miles of canal and 23 locks! That is a pretty impressive rate of knots!!

The weather coming up the flight was as forecast, bright, sunny and warm, in fact with the work we were doing it was particularly hot! I would have to say that the Wigan flight is pretty hard work compared with, say, the Hatton Flight, Delph flight or even Cane Hill. By my reckoning it took us something like 6 hours to get through them.

Tomorrow should be a distinctly shorter day taking us only as far as Chorley which will be about 6 miles.