Away around ten this morning,the first hop wasn’t far just to the services for water and dump rubbish. Just beyond the bridge ahead of us are a row of moored boats, the first moored on the approach to the bridge and the last two right across the winding hole. It was so hot by now that the iPad on the slide shut down due to high temperature.
Coming into Polesworth you can see the canal is right on weir which is good, I had read reports of the Coventry canal being low.
Only a few bots moored in Polesworth but we met 3 Napton Narrowboat hire boats who I think were traveling in convoy, the last flying a Norwegian flag. Nice little place up for sale, canal side at on the way
to Tamworth. We did have a 5 minute stop at bridge 66 to stock up on bottles of beer.
The “No Mooring” sign is still on the garden fence just by bridge 73. We never moor there as its adjacent to a scrap yard.
There is now no water point above Glascote top lock, it was removed a couple of months ago.
As we approached the top lock a boat came up behind us and kindly opened and closed the offside gate for us, we in turn started filling the bottom lock for them when we left. A first for us today, I had to wait for a boat to clear the aqueduct over the river before we could proceed. We moored for the night just before Fazeley Junction on the 7 day moorings with rings .
Today’s Journey
(note where it failed to log due to the heat)
8 miles with 2 locks in 4¼ hours.
