This is one of the reasons I like boating, the view from the front doors this morning, its not so grand tonight, although you cant see it, it has hast started to rain really finely.
Pushed off just after ten and spotted a boat ahead at Tattenhall Marina, I think they may have come out of there. There are still just as many boats moored at Golden Nock plus a load on the hard, there are even 3 wide beams down there now.
We only met three boats as we traversed the length of them. By the bridge on the towing path there is a bike in a couple of bits. Is it nicked and the front wheel lose, or did someone lose their temper with it?
Can someone please remind me what it means if all the cows are laying down, every last one of them? Once clear of the moorings we soon caught up with the boat ahead and after a while managed to overtake them. I thought the walls of this bridge quite unusual being stepped, they are normally capped on a curve.It was the same both sides so not a repair job.
We arrived at Christleton Lock and it was against us, would this be the norm. We had just worked down and were leaving when the slow boat we overtook earlier arrived, so I back set for them. Do we wait at the next lock or carry on? I walked the flight and at the next lock a hire boat had just entered and were slowly filling the lock so we would be waiting anyway. Eventually the slow boat arrived and slipped in beside us and shared the rest of the way down. We did have one lock where a boat was just leaving and one where a boat arrived as we were locking down. I was surprised that there was a cricket match in progress as it was still drizzling, however that didn’t last long before the covers went on.
Approaching the centre of Chester things look a bit different around the old tower and its now all built up. I am not sure when this landed but it didn’t damage the bridge so no CRT closure.
They are demolishing the canal side building directly to where we are moored, unlike Atherstone there is no pontoons making an exclusion zone and to catch masonry that may fall into the canal.
Our locking partners passed us as we moored up, they are hoping to find a Volockie on the Northgate Staircase locks as they take the boat to its new moorings at Croughton.
Today’s Journey
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