Posts about the Easter 2009 trip
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 as us would either be heading for Hurleston Junction and the Shropshire Union Canal (Llangollen […]
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 boat when we should have got off at Wigan, this of course meant that we […]
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 much had the canal to ourselves again. All the way through Worsley and over Barton […]
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 early to expect a lot of boats on the move, but we saw a couple […]
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 be one of them. Trips from Crooke down to Rufford or Lydiate were a very […]
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 was the next boat, after Mintball, to be built by Ron Tinker. Worsley has changed […]
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 reached Dutton Stop Lock No 76 there were a couple of boats ahead of us […]
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 schedules back and forth and decided that although it was a brilliant idea there was […]
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 Hyde’s and discovered a new brewery in Wigan, which would influence our choice of overnight […]
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 so that when the rest of the crew arrived we could just load their stuff […]