We've been watching the weather forecast whilst dealing with some family stuff. Anyhow we decided to wind this morning to get back to our mooring before the Thursday 'low' comes through. After that we may just stay on the mooring or may venture up to the winding hole at the top of the Adderley flight, we'll see.
Anyhow we were off at a sprightly 10.15 am this morning with a destination of Wheaton Aston visitor moorings for a pub treat tonight. Our target was Lower Hattons winding hole just past the three mile marker and just before the M54 motorway bridge.
The astute will notice we are winded and heading back up the canal but the wind at Lower Hattons was a fail... the off side was far too silty and the bow just stuck, I was fearful of swinging round and getting jammed on the shelf or worst the rudder lifting out of the cup. So common sense prevailed and knowing the canal a bit we opted for the much larger Pendeford Hall Lane winding hole and Rachel did a smashing job of swinging Percy round. Percy is a slow boat and takes some winding but we got there and she was rewarded with tea and cake ! I'll send C&RT a note but I doubt much will be done sadly.
Then it was slow time back up to Wheaton Aston but with the south westerly at our backs a much nicer cruise. A few reverses to clear leaves and we were soon dropping down our second and same lock of this cruise.
Services again - I walked down to see what if any moorings were available and was surprised there was only one with nothing on the southern side of turners garage.
We took diesel and a fresh bottle of gas from the nice fella at Turners then slipped into the end mooring just before Dirty Lane Bridge - great name, be interesting to understand the history of that name !
Booked a table at the Hartley Arms for food later. We will have a walk into Wheaton Aston in the morning for a few supplies before we head off back to Shebdon to sit out the worst of the weather - or Rachel will I have to be elsewhere for a while.
For the records 61 litres of diesel put in and the engine hours counter was on 1209 hours. Last top up checking the blog was 14th October 2024 when we were returning from our trip to Buxworth basin and the Macc canal. The counter was on ........ wait for it 1177 hours so we have run Percy's donk for just 32 hours in a year !! That has truly shocked me.
I can't imagine the costs per hour or would rather not. Suffice to say we need to do better or..........
I can't use the hours and litres as a consumption calculation as this time I brimmed the tank.
2 comments:
You’ve broken the boating law which says you must always say what the price was at Turner’s! I’d be interested to know, as we’ll be passing Norbury first, and last time (having filled up at Turner’s) Norbury was cheaper.
When you do the hours we've done this year we could fill the tanks with Whisky and not worry about cost ! Just checked .89p we declared 80/20 domestic propulsion gas was £46
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