Todays forecast is for rain
. We also have about 25 locks today so 0900 found us in Wetherspoons, Waterfront, for a full English breakfast. Shortly after we were underway tackling the Delph 8 locks followed shortly after by the Stourbridge 16.
We had a good system with Joanne preparing the lock then me driving in and operating the lock then climing back on and closing the gates behind me with a push from the boat hook. A couple of gates I couldnt get with this method so Joanne had to walk back. Anyway we cleared the Delph in an hour and the Stourbridge 16 in two and a half hours, not bad.
At the bottom lock I embarrassingly got the rope caught in the propeller. Something I am always warning others about. I had not noticed that our rear line had dropped in the water. Had to open the weed hatch and had to set about cutting the rope of the prop shaft with the carving knife managing to cut my thumb in the process! Moored up about 1530 before the first rain deluge began.
. We also have about 25 locks today so 0900 found us in Wetherspoons, Waterfront, for a full English breakfast. Shortly after we were underway tackling the Delph 8 locks followed shortly after by the Stourbridge 16.
We had a good system with Joanne preparing the lock then me driving in and operating the lock then climing back on and closing the gates behind me with a push from the boat hook. A couple of gates I couldnt get with this method so Joanne had to walk back. Anyway we cleared the Delph in an hour and the Stourbridge 16 in two and a half hours, not bad.
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