Monthly Archives: April 2009

From Barbridge Visitor Moorings (24 hour) to Ladybird Moorings, a distance of 15 miles, 1½ flg and 22 locks. After spending ages stuck in queues at locks and knowing that most of the boats that were going the same way … Continue reading →

From Dutton Wharf Bridge No 212 to Barbridge Visitor Moorings (24 hour), a distance of 25 miles, 3 flg and 8 locks. For various reasons, which this blog is not going in to, Kathy and I were still on the … Continue reading →

From Astley Bridge No 58 to Dutton Wharf Bridge No 212, a distance of 31 miles, flg and 1 lock. Easter Saturday, and you think that you’d see some boats on the move wouldn’t you? Well we didn’t. We pretty … Continue reading →

From Crabtree Swing Bridge No 32 to Astley Bridge No 58, a distance of 22 miles, 3¾ flg and 8 locks. It was another quiet morning when we set off, the start of the Easter weekend so probably a little … Continue reading →

From Crooke Bridge No 47 to Crabtree Swing Bridge No 32, a distance of 28 miles, 1¼ flg and 2 locks. If there are any sections of canal that Mintball could cruise without anyone at the helm then this would … Continue reading →

From Worsley Visitor Moorings to Crooke Bridge No 47, a distance of 16 miles, 3½ flg and 6 locks. It felt odd being in Worsley again. The last time I remember being moored here we were moored behind “Tinkerbelle”, which … Continue reading →

From Acton Bridge No 209 to Worsley Visitor Moorings, a distance of 29 miles, ½ flg and 1 lock. An early start saw us heading north, hoping that we’d got the timings right to get through the tunnel. When we … Continue reading →

From Marbury Woods Footbridge to Acton Bridge No 209, a distance of 12 miles, 3¾ flg and 2 locks. It’s odd how plans change. When we originally planned this trip we’d talked about doing the Anderton Lift but we’d bounced … Continue reading →

From Nantwich Visitor Moorings (north) to Marbury Woods Footbridge, a distance of 22 miles, 7 flg and 8 locks. Despite a good evening drinking in The Vine, where Nick and I had several pints of some very good pints of … Continue reading →

From Ladybird Moorings to Nantwich Visitor Moorings (north), a distance of 11 miles, 7 flg and 22 locks. Kathy and I had come up the night before and had grabbed supper at The Talbot and had basically got everything ready … Continue reading →