I checked the weather report yesterday morning and it seemed
to be ok so I headed off towards Nantwich around 10am.
It was quite chilly but pleasant enough as I moved past
fields
and not much happening, passing another boat moored up the owner asked
me what Quinquireme meant, a fairly
common occurrence to which I gave my now normal response ‘an ancient warship
with five deck of rowers’.
There are two fairly isolated locks on this stretch, the
Hack Green locks, arriving at the first lock which was against me I was just
about to fill it when I spotted a Canal and River Trust workboat approaching so
I helped them through before moving through myself, this meant the second lock
was in my favour, just a bit of a fill to get the top gate open, and I was
through that one and away again.
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| Approaching the first lock |
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| About to exit the second lock |
Nantwich is a very busy canal area so I stopped at the first
available mooring and then walked ahead to see if I could find better, I needed
to be somewhere convenient for visitors coming on the 2nd Jan to be
able to park and get up on to the high embankment that exists along this
section, I found somewhere a little better a few hundred yards ahead so moved
on to that, it's a little way away from the action and so is fairly quiet but later I walked along to buy some milk and after the aqueduct ahead
of me it was packed fairly solid for the next half mile or so with moored
boats.
Current mooring
This morning the very high winds were whipping up waves on
the canal, my boat was rocking from side to side and the rudder was banging on
the stern in a regular beat despite being secured with a bungy cord as I usually
do, behind me on the bend in the canal the water was at its worst and was
crashing into the boat moored behind me and washing over his stern deck, it was
like waves at the seashore, quite a sight.
I popped into town, about a 20 minute walk, it looks very
nice but the weather was not really suitable for sightseeing so I will return
another day.
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