Nantwich

 

Here I am Rune

Distance 2.0 miles 

Total 5293 Locks  432 Tunnels

Running total mileage 7,988.9miles

 

Today was probably the shortest cruise of this trip, just 2 miles and no locks. The reason being that we needed to get to Nantwich for a variety of reasons, the weekend shopping, a couple of bits for the boat from the chandlery and the usual ‘domesticky’ stuff of dumping our rubbish/recycling, filling with water and emptying the toilet cassettes.

I was most impressed with the service from the chandlery, not only did they have the seal for my diesel filler cap (in several different sizes) but also had a replacement for the broken air release valve on the toilet cassette, something that I thought I was going to have to wait until I got back to my postal address and order online for delivery.

The current plan is to stay here until Sunday (maximum stay on moorings 48 hours) to give a chance to have another look around Nantwich (a thriving town) and take a dip in their brine swimming pool tomorrow.

Hurleston

 

Here I am Rune

Distance 11.0 miles 

Total 5293 Locks  432 Tunnels

Running total mileage 7,986.9miles

 

Although 11 miles, an easy day cruise since there were only 2 locks. A bit more in the way of boat movements along the Middlewich Arm, but still not what one might call busy. The bridge of ‘concern’, Bridge 8 Nanney’s Bridge, had people working on it but no sing of the navigation itself being, nor any sign that it had been. We pressed on a short way beyond it just to be sure however!

Not much further into Nantwich, about 2 miles according to my reckoning, so less than an hour’s cruise tomorrow and then hopefully moored there until Sunday.

Middlewich

 

Here I am Rune

Distance 6.0 miles 

Total 5291 Locks  432 Tunnels

Running total mileage 7,975.9miles

 

Once again we’ve got to the intended destination, Middlewich, with no notable dramas. Quite surprised as to how few boats seemed to be on the move now we are this side of Harecastle Tunnel, today I think we have passed three, and two more have come past since we moored. We have called it a day early again today as I wanted to pop into Kings Lock Chandery to see if I could either get a replacement seal for the diesel cap or a replacement air release valve for the Thetford Cassette. They failed on both fronts but almost had the Cassette release valve, they had two but not for my model.

The plan for tomorrow will be to get somewhere beyond Nanney’s Bridge (Bridge 8) since there is a bit of a pantomime of opening and closing the canal there due to a vehicle strike to the bridge. If I can get past there, they can do as they like!