Last night was a full moon and was visible just before we went to bed even with all the street lighting, not so good on a photo. The moon is just to the right of the second street light to the right of the sign. No you cant even see it.
The same view this morning at 10 am just before we left with a much more overcast sky.
As planed we pulled Harnser out of the arm backwards into clear water before engaging gear and it worked well. We only had one trip down the weed hatch, I didn’t bother tying up, just let her drift about. That was the same time that the only other boat we saw all day came along. The cause of the problem was I lump of cushion foam, not on the actual prop but against the rudder so how it effected thrust so much I don’t know. The canal was no where near as weedy as I expected, lots of lilies but a clear channel down the middle.
We chugged merrily on in the sunshine that came out more and more. I failed to make Sneyd Junction in one, left it too late and the bows just caught the mud. about a mile after this they are resurfacing the tow path with hot tar and chippings. I don’t think its
CRT as there was just a small notice by the bridge saying pedestrians use other path, I’m not sure where the other path is?
We decided to moor just above Walsall Top Lock as there is rather a nice 2 day mooring. As we chugged down from Birchills Junction we noticed that there is now a new development on the right hand side, they were working on this last time we were this way.
Down at the locks there was already a boat on the moorings so we had to wind and come back up to the junction. Winding wasn’t easy as the canal is quite silted and getting to 90° across the canal was easy but pushing all the way round took more effort. On the way back we noted another development on the off side.
There are some mooring rings just before the aqueduct where we have moored before, but its even moor silted now but we got close enough to step ashore at the bows.
Today’s Journey
7½ miles, no locks in 3½ hours
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