Here I am Rune
Distance 3.7 miles
Total 3582 Locks 220 Tunnels
Running total mileage 5182.8 miles
As planned, a short day’s travel today, in fact so short that we had to leave the engine running for a bit once we’d moored up to fully charge up the batteries.
Once again, an ideal day for cruising, fairly warm, no wind and decent amount of sunshine, I have to say that I’m a big fan of Springtime when the weather is like this. Having arrived at Nantwich we then completed the purpose of making today such a short run, by stocking up again on groceries and one or two other essentials. It’s interesting that in all of the occasions we have moored here in Nantwich (9 times to date, today being the 10th), this is the first time we’ve moored on this side of the aqueduct, which is a shame because it is quite a pleasant mooring.
The only incident of note during the day was we managed to break a fisherman's rod for him. It was one of those long poles where they sit on one side of the canal but fish on the other side with their really long poles. As I approached he eventually started to move his pole (it becomes a bit of a game of 'chicken' to see how long they can leave the rods across the water) but on this occasion he misjudged and instead of either lifting the pole to let us pass under it, or swing it away from us as we approached, he swung the rod towards our approaching boat and, I guess, caught it on the button on the front of the boat resulting in a loud 'snap' and the top end of his rod dropped into the canal. In fairness he was very apologetic about it and said that he hadn't seen our 60', 18 ton boat coming! What always puzzles me with this sort of thing is that you don't need to look to see a boat coming, you just need to watch the water in the canal since when we are about 100 metres from someone on the canalside they will see the water flowing towards us as we draw the water with our prop.
The only incident of note during the day was we managed to break a fisherman's rod for him. It was one of those long poles where they sit on one side of the canal but fish on the other side with their really long poles. As I approached he eventually started to move his pole (it becomes a bit of a game of 'chicken' to see how long they can leave the rods across the water) but on this occasion he misjudged and instead of either lifting the pole to let us pass under it, or swing it away from us as we approached, he swung the rod towards our approaching boat and, I guess, caught it on the button on the front of the boat resulting in a loud 'snap' and the top end of his rod dropped into the canal. In fairness he was very apologetic about it and said that he hadn't seen our 60', 18 ton boat coming! What always puzzles me with this sort of thing is that you don't need to look to see a boat coming, you just need to watch the water in the canal since when we are about 100 metres from someone on the canalside they will see the water flowing towards us as we draw the water with our prop.
We are still comfortably ahead of our schedule, and to remain so we only need to get as far as Aqueduct Marina on the Middlewich Arm. My intended mooring for tomorrow night is slightly further on to a particularly nice mooring between bridges 12 and 13.
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