Not a good nights sleep last night. Went to bed and found a pool of water round the loo. so spent most of the night wondering where that came from. This morning soon found it. The situation on the boat last night was unusual, the calorifier was cold as the engine has been off for a couple of days but the calorifier was still pressurised and a weep had developed on the top Essex Flange that I fitted, I suspected the high temperature rubber washers had gone hard, but they were OK and a quarter turn with the big spanner stopped it.
That sorted we were on our way. The large pipes along the towpath are for sewage as can be seen by this slightly humours sign.
The new development around the historic shot tower could have been worse, tying modern in with old is never easy and they do have an industrial look.
A little further up the offside cottage had a fine gnome display, I think the chap lives next door.
I will never work out what happens in these locks, the first we came to has one ground and one gate paddle, opening the ground paddle on the same side as the boat and the boat moves gently out. At the next lock with 2 ground paddles, open the one the same side as the boat as you would on the GU shoots you across the lock, opening both and you sort of sit in the middle, then the next, same procedure and the water flows under the boat, hits the far wall and pins you comfortably against the side. We had to turn all the locks bar two and close all gates.
We did meet one or two boats later but not many. There is a spot before the mile and a half of Golden Nook long term on line moorings where CRT load and unload their boats some one has built a shelter for some reason.
We chugged slowly passed Golden Nook and then Tattenhall Marina marina before mooring for the night on the 48hr moorings at The Shady Oak Pub.
Todays Journey 14¾ miles, 5 locks in 4¾ hours
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