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refit basically yes I know ..we did not name it hence the rename

Chirk marina having an over haul internally Ah that had not crossed my mind well i could spare the fifteen year old

being sacrificed....... of course!!

I looked on C&rts website there was no form or anything ...do i just phone them and tell them can it be that simple??? I wonder if our youngest daughter (13) would be interested in this particular job

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Given that our boat has a naff name How do we go about changing it

and i put navigation though i have and enjoyed taking a group of young people canoeing down there we were able to take young people into short side runs totally overgrown and no way ever suitable for narrowboats we went from Queens head to the junction at Frankton or rather the small basin area down from the junction where theres a car park??

I am accepting that my electric system is not good New batteries needed by next winter no fridge not enoughlight to read by and an educated trust worthy person looked in the engine and exclaim ed that the engine was nice but the electrics looked amateur. We intend to install solar . What do folk consider essential electric wise

Stopped by shebdon last night pub the wharfe was shut had been for a year or so.tonight we are at Market Drayton good Sunday lunch at the crown as we were too late for the Talbot by five mins to three the chap said they finish serving at three a local lady described him to us as a miserable bloke

Spent last night at Autherley by napton narrow boats bit of a troll to get anywhere but ok stopped in Brewood pronounced brood, lovely little town/village very helpful hardware store will deliver coal to boat great pub the bridge.

Well we got as far as lock fifteen due to every lock against us and having to grovel in th weed hatch again more bags and an old fender thank goodness I have a good sharp knife to cut the blasted thing away. But we are strongly moored up in a quiet spot discreet no tall trees and not being battered too much from the wind

Net curtain you name it we found it, so half an hour later sorted,guy suggests a lookout on bow for shopping trolleys.!! So off we toddle round on to the curley wurley and we come to devils elbow bridge and then the bend Roj kind of bogs it up just as we come across a lovely garden balcony built over the corner of the canal that nearly gets dismantled by the boat ...... It's fine more than Roj's nerves we get to wednesbury and he sails past the moorings so we are a little past that on other moorings behind a chain branded pub called the nicolodian A branded pup but useful for shopping if you want big shops also sainsburys etc A branded pup but useful for shopping if you want big shops also sainsburys etc Had enough of spelling and predictive text stuff and frankly today.....and it snowed

Well today we did not get so far, we started off fine, reached lock 3 of the Walsall locks and some bodies little darling had shoved elder branches in to the conservation key apertures so twenty minutes later I had freed one to open the paddle and get us free I said to Roj I would phone C&RT to let them know about the other three, so off we went all the way to lock six where there was no water in the pound so I had to phone them !!# We get to the top lock and the boat is handling like an old wellies and some bloke working on a boat suggests that the proposed might be fouled, he wasn't wrong! Bags, wire plastic cable

It's now half six just been woken by a flock of Canada geese stoked fire writing this and considering putting kettle on, early start to get out of here and hopefully to roughly where Marty suggested as weather tonight iffy

Thank you will do our best

Well returned to the boat at about 8.00pm boat fine not fiddled with at all ropes as we left them. Not sure about the wharf bar disco sounds, five guests and security does not look like they are expecting trouble. Brewers fayre as usual lots of easy access shops no other boats Start on the locks tomorrow

We have ended up in WalSall town Arm last night had to leave it there todays, as funeral this pm going back tonight, set off again tomorrow a little over 24 hrs but absolutely no where else seemed safe or achievable after an hour hold up in the ryder green locks waiting for Barry to sort the water levels out, no one else there though.

The only way to get through the system with Coseley closed and the other closures thankfully the boat has a very shallow draft as there is nothing on board as yet other than basics and dogs ,Roj not included it really could not be any worse ?!!

We Finally left Hatton on Wednesday 2.30ish having to make best run towards home as my sister in laws funeral tomorrow Monday Wednesday we made it as far as Tom o the wood wonderful grub really nice place will go again if we can. Thursday we ended up just below the Anderton road bridge Sparkbrook amazing food from little kebab /fish and chip shop. Friday we got in a mess due to no conservation key .......C&RT ( Andy and Barry) were great we bought a key from them they helped Roj Steer boat out of grounding as the wind was so strong he could not bring it round. Saturday we ended up having visited Sherbourne wharfe for more fuel and water and coal and a centre line and settling just back on the main line, the Farmers bridge locks were a flipping nightmare especially under the Bt tower . Sunday we needed to be somewhere safe to leave the boat for sister in laws funeral as said before well i cannot say i enjoyed the Walsall canal, filthy dirty, Had to call C&RT out agin as the pound below lock 6 had NO water in it just a small trickle down the middle and although the boat is empty, a paper boat would not have made it ...and to the rescue comes Barry again ........bet he is glad we are out of his patch now.......?? The canal just got dirtier with beer cans and junk we struggled into Walsall for the night.

well we are moored just above lock 22/9/ on aston locks, depending on wether you pay attention to Cart or nicholsons guides, We have travelled from Hatton since 3.00 Wednesday tomorrow will be day three the weather is blowy to say the least we had to be rescued by cart ..........no conservancy key???? have now, been stuck on mud banks 3 times due to wind and tomorrow looks worse, Great!! still we are moving have only lost chimney..low flying trees, top chain to button fender at the front .... a little hasty into lock.....side fender had to be cut loose as trapped boat getting into aston lock 24 according to Nicholsons, aside of that not a bad small adventure although injuries big bruise on Rojs arm trapped finger on my left hand and bruised bum from slipping on lock gate somewhere. 3/4 bottle of merlot later am chilled and tired night all and sod the wind.

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Sorry Panda missed you on facebook. ok so if ashted is not open i can see no impediment from contiuing up the GU to Salford and back down through the Aston locks and on to the main line, I can not see any stoppages that way, because the next one is at Perry Bar past Salford, That will take a little longer but achieve the same in the end do you think

Thank you Matty, I did find it again, this way that i posted this morning is open all the way with no closures that affect movement it should take around 10days + taking out the couple of days needed to rush home for a funeral i reckon we can be at Chirk properly by the 20th of January, I hope.

Hi All Could anyone advise me if this route, to avoid stoppages, has any great glaring errors, I have spent 2 hours fiddling my way through Nicholsons and the Cart page trying to find a route. The best i can come up with is Hatton Aston Junction Pudding Green Junction the walsall canal Wyrley and Essington Canal Horseley Fields Junction Wolverhampton locks Aldersley Junction Authersley Junction Then up to Hurleston and Chirk Any comments gratefully recieved try not to be too cutting.................. its early 9.09 am on a Sunday