From Ladybird Moorings to Hoolgrave Bridge No 11, a distance of 19 miles, 4 flg and 24 locks. We travelled up to the boat on Thursday night and, after doing a shop at the ASDA, spent a pleasant couple of hours in The Salopian Star drinking beers from the New Brew Brewery before wandering back […]
In which the crew of Mintball make their way back to their moorings and encounter a Lost Soul on the way….
Mist greets the crew when they get up but slowly the weather gets better – good enough in fact to sit in a beer garden for a while.
From The Jack Mytton Inn (closed) to Willey Moor Lock Visitor Moorings, a distance of 21 miles, 1¾ flg and 8 locks. After a good nights sleep we got up and cast off and headed off down a, once again, deserted canal. I don’t think we saw another boat until we were past Frankton Junction […]
From Froncysyllte Visitor Moorings (east) to The Jack Mytton Inn (closed), a distance of 19 miles and 2 locks. Although there was a lot of industry around the canal it is long gone and in many places there isn’t any obvious signs of it ever having been there, but at Fron there are the impressive […]
From Chemistry Bridge to Froncysyllte Visitor Moorings (east), a distance of 25 miles, 3¼ flg and 2 locks. Once you’ve reached Whitchurch you’ve pretty much done all the locks on the canal but you’ve hardly started on the lift bridges – so your crew don’t get much time to lie in after you’ve cast off […]
From Marsh Lane Visitor Moorings to Chemistry Bridge, a distance of 16 miles, 3¼ flg and 19 locks. The odd thing about the visitor moorings in Nantwich is that they always seem to be full but there never seems to be any sign of life on the boats. It takes a remarkable length of time […]
From Ladybird Moorings to Marsh Lane Visitor Moorings, a distance of 11 miles, 3¼ flg and 22 locks. We had a fairly late start as we drove up from home in the morning, so we only actually left the moorings just after 10:30am, and as usual the canal was pretty quiet, but the weather could […]
From Shebdon Visitor Moorings to Ladybird Moorings, a distance of 7 miles, 5¼ flg and 5 locks. We made an earlyish start, but still not that early and, once again, no boats were on the move… in fact we saw no moving boats until we got to Goldstone Wharf where we met a boat that […]
From The Anchor Inn (Cross Green) to Shebdon Visitor Moorings, a distance of 21 miles, 7¾ flg and 2 locks. We had another moderately lazy start but still managed to get moving before any of the other boats. Anglers were starting to collect near Coven Heath Pipe Bridge – obviously the sewage works outfall attracts […]