Thursday 23 October 2014

Market Drayton to Norbury Junction

Rang Brewood Post Office at 9 to check they would accept a delivery, and then ordered the clamp meter from Amazon.

Ran the engine from 9 and set out about 10. Ran a standard wash-load. Not especially cold first thing. Made it through the second bridge in time to just jump a hire boat, who followed, a bit slower. The Tyrley flight was straightforward for us, but a boat waiting for us to come up the first lock got stuck on the shelf. They had just about got clear when I went back to help as we were coming up the second lock, but that meant a long wait for the hirers behind us and we never saw them again.

The run through to Norbury seemed very long – probably because there is now not a lot of novelty in this stretch, the wind became colder, and there seemed an awful lot of online moorings to pass.

At Norbury we got a pump-out (£18 w/o blue) and filled up with diesel, after putting some diesel bug treatment in the tank. 186.5 litres, to fill up from a 20 cm dipstick measurement. Then we filled the water-tank.

11.5 miles, 5 locks, 6.3 hours engine