It looks really long now it is out of the water, but I am getting used to the extra space. An extra ten feet of covered accomodation, easily big enough to have a workshop inside so that I can make things and who knows, someday I might sell something.
now ready for the paint.
Wow, all nice and new looking, bright and shiny, I like bright shiny things.
That's why I keep buying little pieces of tat from the charity shop.
A day to let the paint dry and I'll be out in the great big world again.
Must try very hard not to scratch anything at least for the first day or so.
Now it is all painted
Today's the day. This is where I will be when I leave the dry dock. The proceedure is to let the water in via a sluice gate and when the two sides are level the boards that damn the dry dock are removed and I can use the engine to exit the dock.
and ready to travel
Heading back the way we came, although we did stop here at Wheelock I didn't bother getting any more dog food as we had quite enough to keep us going.
Doing ten locks with two boats sounds like a load of work, and it is, but on this canal it is greatly helped by the fact that most of the locks are doubled up. Once I have Forty Two in a lock and I am waiting for it to fill (or empty as the case may be) instead of just waiting I can be working my No 2's boat through the second lock so instead of t aking twice as long it only takes about half as much again as it would if I only had one boat to work.
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Actually West port where another boat crashed into me!
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I want to get to Baswich early in the morning to organise some timber to make a new bed so stopped comparatively early.
Moored up close to the timber yard and the joiners. Purchased a couple of sheets of ply, one at 18mm thick and one at 5.5mm to make a new bed for myself, I don't like the current one and D'fer has already fallen down the back of it once. I got out of bed and left him there. The bed wasn't latched open so it folded up on him leaving him behind it, jammed up against the wall. I had to grab his collar and lift him out, no mean feat at his weight.
The timber yard delivered the ply next door to the joiners who put it on their really big saw table and ripped it down to the correct sizes for my design of bed. All this was accomplished by shortly after lunch time
Moored up opposite Toms Moorings. Made good use of the facilities.
Cannot go through Penkridge without calling in at Jaspers the bakers, best bread for miles around, then on to the market where all good things are found, including a piano hinge for the bed.
The ply was all cut to size for me so I simply had to assemble all the pieces and screw them together, it still took a couple of days. Now to dismantle the existing fold away bed and install my version of a fold away bed.
Spent all day making the bed and making sure it slid in and out easily.
A bit of travelling, a bit of resting, a bit of relaxing.
More travelling, resting and relaxing.
While on my way to the supermarket I passed a funeral parlour which was, unfortunately. right next to the Spare Body Parts shop. I had to look in the window just to make sure that the parts really were for cars.
5 locks, not bad, but there are 15 in a row coming up.
Only did 12 of the 15 locks 'cause I moored up in Audlum village for a few days, recovering!
Audlem Festival of Transport & Historic Boat Gathering, it was an interesting day out and the rain showers made it a little more exciting.
you will see that it is made of bits and pieces.
The aftermath of the Audlem Festival, everybody else had packed up and gone home and the puppet show was about to, but at least we got pictures of it before they departed.
Which one's Punch and which one's Judy
With views like this of an evening who needs to go abroad?
on the Middlewich arm