Wednesday 20 June 2018

Stoke Pound


Here I am  Rune
Distance  2.4 miles 
Total 3305 Locks  182 Tunnels
Running total mileage 4786.1 miles

Only a comparatively short distance today, but a whole load of locks (30) that has dropped us over 200 feet back down towards the River Severn (still more locks to do though). It seems that it is the locks at the top of the flight that takes the time. Going up we had done the first 9 locks in an hour but it still took us three and three-quarter hours to get to the top. Coming down we seemed to be quite slow at the top having only done 5 locks in the first hour and yet, again we got through the whole flight in three hours and fifty minutes, even with a lot of locks set against us.

We took a meal out at the Queen’s Head pub at the bottom of the flight where we have now moored for the night. Pressing on towards Droitwich tomorrow.

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