Away at 10 on a lovely sunny calm morning, the wind did freshen slightly during the day only to die away again now.
Our first stop was the services to fill with water outside Preston Brook marina, so decent pressure at last, needless to say as we went to leave there was a convoy heading towards Runcorn. Back on the main line at Waters Meeting I reversed back to Midland Chandlers to pick up a new tiller bearing, also to drop a parcel off with Liam at Preston Brook Wharf, its relaying it way from Suffolk to the Tar boat Spey. Once that was all sorted a nice steady run towards Lymm when we met another convey being lead by a wheel stared 14 foot wide, widebeam and even on the wide canal. It wasn’t the only widebeam we met, the next was in a convoy of 8 that we met at a bridge with a widebeam moored on the offside right against the bridge, I held back until the widebeam passed, no 4 and then pushed through as the widebeam had got himself attached to the towpath trying to round the bend, so the rest behind him were going nowhere. A boater on the long term moorings wished me luck with the continuous flow coming towards me.
This house on the offside has a very large walled garden with at least, what I assume to be potting sheds built onto it, this one is now in need of a little support in its later life.
At one point we could see people Alpaca walking over on the far side of the field.
Again not something you see every day, a run containing goats and a pig, they all seemed happy together.
When we arrived at Lymm there was only a cruised moored on the offside and a couple of boats towpath side. Since we have been here the cruiser has left and now all the mooring are full both sides.
My task for this evening was to decoke the stove and change the diesel filter feeding it, the first bit of a mucky job the second fiddly. I was 25 years younger when I mounted the filter, it was easy to do then.
Today’s Journey 12 miles, no locks in 4½ hours.
1 comment:
Is it really 25 years since we met? Where has that gone? You were still planning Harnser then, you have been lucky enough to get a lot of use from it. I do enjoy your blogs. I have neglected Tarn since the pandemic, so now I can't open the fuel tank or the water tank, and the rudder is stuck. All hail to you for keeping up the boating.
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