Wednesday 29th
April 2020
Once we had breakfast, the boat was made ready to move. A lot of
things to put away after not moving for the last 10 days. After reversing to
the winding hole and turning, we headed towards the chandlery and lock.
CRT had issued a restriction to navigation at the railway bridge. The
brick work is all to be repaired and pointed and we found repairs were underway,
with a temporary footbridge in place and a work pontoon in the bridge hole
itself. The guys were quick to remove both to allow us through.
We stopped at the chandlery as Susan had got some heavy shopping for
us and we ordered more rope off her. We then passed through the lock and filled
at the water point. A couple off the boat moored next to the water point told
us that the surface of the whole canal had been covered in a green slime that
had begun to smell and had only dissipated with the rain yesterday. We saw much
evidence of it all the way to Barbridge Junction once when we moved off.
The rain started again at the junction and got heavier for the rest of
the way to Hurleston Junction, where we moored.
I dozed off in the chair for an hour and, when I woke, it was to
lovely warm sunshine. We had done a wash on the water point and this was hung out.
It is always a bonus when washing can be dried outside otherwise it seems to
hang around the boat for days.
Day Total: 1 lock; 4 miles; 0 Tunnels; 0 Swing Bridges; 0 Lift
Bridges; 0 Boat Lift; Day’s running hours 4.7
(including running for hot water etc)
Overall Total: 909 locks; 1621 miles; 53 tunnels; 61 Swing Bridges; 17
Lift Bridges; 2 Boat Lifts; total engine running hours 1097.7
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