Rufford

Here I am Rune

Distance  4.6 miles

Total 3617 Locks  229 Tunnels

Running total mileage 5318.5miles

A bit more work to be done today to get up here to Rufford since we had 7 locks to get through, and no two of the locks was of the same design. Fortunately we have been able to team up with Simon and Deborah on Bequia Valentine, a couple that are also going up the Ribble Link on Saturday with us. Since these are all broad locks it helps to reduce the workload and save water to have two boats travelling together as we can get both boats into the locks at the same time.

We have now stocked up for the weekend at Burscough so all we now need to do is get safely across the Ribble Link on Saturday morning, we are just short of 4 miles from Tarleton Lock to take us down onto the Douglas River, should take just over an hour to get there.