Stourbridge

 

Here I am Rune

Distance 6.66 miles 

Total 5108 Locks  398 Tunnels

Running total mileage 7746.57 miles

 

A pleasant enough cruise from Kinver to Stourbridge with a lunch stop at Stewponey Wharf. Weather was good all day which was a bonus. Quite busy coming up through the Stourton Flight passing 4 boats coming down with one boat behind us going up. The only very slight drama was a family of duck who unwisely decided to join us in a lock. They all tucked in behind the boat in the lock, but when the paddles were opened the boat was pushed backwards towards the bottom gate with the risk of crushing them all. A burst of forward thrust solves the problem, but it did mean the ducks did a bit of wave surfing!

On arrival at Stourbridge most of the mooring seemed full but as we passed on boat the girl on it said that they would move nearer to the boat behind to create a space for us. I went to the end of the arm to wind and by the time I got back, the space that had been created had been taken by another boat, you win some you lose some! Fortunately there was another mooring available only 100 metres further on.