Ian is in a leafy part of Canalworld 😎
After leaving the bright lights of moorings in Market Drayton the Cardinal and I mooched through a somewhat narrow cutting and up through five more locks in a row. The start of the day was very quiet indeed, with no people, no dog-emptiers, no other boats moving. However, by the time I’d worked up to the top lock I had two other boats nibbling at my heels a couple of locks back and in the combined lock landing and winding hole and service area of Tyrley we were suddenly one of six narrowboats, all doing different things and wanting to move in different directions. Twas fun!
The short stretch of uber-narrow canal (not sufficient room for two boats to pass, should they meet…) was a mere taster of what is yet to come. There’s about a mile or more of narrower and more weird up just around the bend from…
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I love this style of boat & having miles & miles of canals must be exciting!
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Hi! The variety of canals amazed me when I first moved on to them – and I haven’t even tried the rivers yet. Yesterday’s canal was too narrow in most places for two-way traffic (slightly worrying) and others are wide open expanses of water. The old Victorians just plonked them down and through wherever the money said that thay had to go (with one or two exceptions where the gentry and aristocrats wouldn’t allow them to cross their land). 🙂
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thank for explaining Ian! We have zero canals on Vancouver island.I come from Peterborough Ontario where the Trent Severn canal exists.Peterborough has a very large lift lock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_Lift_Lock
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That looks extremely solidly-built indeed! I am headed towards our own version, the Anderton Boat Lift – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton_Boat_Lift – although it will be closed from January to March (at least) for repairs. I hope to get the Cardinal on it as soon as it re-opens in spring. I rather wish that the canal systems that are dotted all over the planet were all joined up, so I could slowly mooch around the world. 🙂
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& I’d be mooching right along behind you Ian!
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