This is the planned route but it may well change closer to the time, or even during the holiday as the timing are very easy and we know we’ll be able to do a lot more than this during the two weeks. Turn Round Here : Grocer\’s Wharf Turn Round Here : Tarleton Boat Yard […]
From Fox Bridge No 52 to Ladybird Moorings, a distance of 4 miles, 5¾ flg and 5 locks. It made a change to be woken up not by the sound of rain on the roof but by the sound of bird song and bright sunshine streaming in round the curtains – could it be that […]
From High Green Bridge No 14 to Fox Bridge No 52, a distance of 19 miles, 5¼ flg and 1 lock. So early Sunday morning I’m lying in bed listening to the rain hammering on the roof of the boat, then I fell asleep and when I woke up it was lighter and the rain […]
From Ladybird Moorings to High Green Bridge No 14, a distance of 21 miles, 6½ flg and 6 locks. After a rather pleasant evening in Market Drayton, where we only actually went to two pubs (The King’s Arms and The Clive and Cofynne), and a rather later return to the boat than we’d planned, we […]
Turn Round Here : Park Lodge Winding Hole Start / Finish : Ladybird Moorings Overnight at : High Green Bridge No 14 Overnight at : Fox Bridge No 52 Mintball needs some fuel and a pump out so we decided to roll that up into a long weekend on the canal and investigate some of […]
Well the plans are falling slowly into place. The early May Bank Holiday weekend should see Mintball heading south down the Shroppie towards Brewood. Along the way we intend to fuel up and get a pump out at Norbury Junction, see what is going on at the boat gathering there and also spend some time […]
Well we have had the confirmation emails and so Mintball will be doing the Liverpool Link this Summer. It’s been quite a while since we last went to the middle of Liverpool – that was for a rally at Stanley Dock so it will be good to see how things have changed since then.
From Norbury Bridge No 38 to Ladybird Moorings, a distance of 11 miles, 2 flg and 5 locks. Mintball has done this trip so many times now that she could probably navigate it without us actually doing anything. In some ways this part of the canal is the most scenic and when the weather is […]
From Wolverhampton Top Lock Moorings to Norbury Bridge No 38, a distance of 17 miles, 6¾ flg and 23 locks. It was all a bit dull and gloomy when we got up the next morning to head off down the locks. There were a couple of other boats pointing down the locks but there was […]
From Scarfield Hill Bridge No 60 to Wolverhampton Top Lock Moorings, a distance of 28 miles, 7¾ flg and 15 locks. I think it was a train on the line that runs right by the canal that woke us up and after doing the morning engine checks we cast off on the rather long run […]