Chris T

On the arm down to Coventry we had 3 separate instances which was a record, a beer bottle, wine gums and sweetcorn.

Whereabouts is it?

Our engineer chap recommended it because, amongst other reasons, it was only £150 a week. It appears now to be 3 times that, so its appeal has pretty much disappeared.

Thanks, useful to know.

Thank you, that's helpful. The link to the terms and conditions on CRTs website didn't work, I presume some of this information would be covered there.

OK, thank you. Ellesmere sounded promising because someone told me it was £150 a week, but I've since looked on CRTs website and you can triple that now.

Does anyone know if pressure washing equipment is available/ included? I can't see any information on the CRT website. And are you able to get the boat high enough to black the baseplate? Haven't done DIY before so thanks for any information.

That sounds quite plausible. I've just checked my Nicholson's and the one between bridge 21 and 22 is where we wind if we're not carrying on to Bugsworth/ Whaley Bridge. For some reason I can't bring to mind the one between 22 and 23 but that is in Nicholson's too, both showing as full length (at the time anyway). Both are also on Canalplan. Looks like I should have carried on!

We were told this morning that some boats from our marina had gone out seeking some shade this week and weren't happy at having to to reverse back up to Marple junction, as they hadn't been aware of the bridge 24 closure. This must have been before the CRT signs went up. I don't know what length boats they were, but there aren't many full length boats here so I'd have expected some / most to be able to turn next the manual lift bridge (I thought the winding hole was the Marple side of it) if nothing has changed.

This afternoon we planned to moor just before the first of the lift bridges, so that we could turn there in the morning and do some food shopping in Marple. Got to Marple junction to find a CRT sign saying that the canal was closed at bridge 24 and this was the last available winding hole. I didn't risk it because it's quite a long way to reverse if it's correct, but does anyone know if there is a reason why the winding hole just before the manual lift bridge cannot be used? I'm not sure if it's a full size one but I've turned there countless times and it's a nice quiet mooring spot. Thank you.

I've seen evidence this week of the contents dumped rather than a full cassette.

We are on our home stretch and should be able to make it back to our marina, but I suspect others would have been relying on Bosley, or won't want to pay to empty their cassettes. We've seen evidence of this in the bushes already on this trip 🤢.