FluffyVal

Thanks for this info

Thanks, I will have a go at that. To be fair I don't mind going back, maybe via Rochdale rather than Huddersfield. I have heard the Rochdale is a bit rough though.

Just going through Stoppages for my trip, it seems the L&L has a navigation closure at ‘Lock 31, Eshton Road Lock - Leeds & Liverpool Canal’ This is a pretty major problem to me, and probably many others. Has anyone had any success at getting an assisted passage through this closure?

Thats (hopefully) so true

I have the boat for 6 weeks, setting off from Stone, up the T&M, the Macc, Peak Forest, Huddersfield then L&L, Bridgewater to Worsley. I haven’t a plan from there.

I am hoping to purchase said GoWindlass for my upcoming trip. So all these comments have been most useful. Just as an aside, please refrain from sticking your windless in the small of your back in your trousers. I was descending Hatton flight, locking the boat down, when I hit a pothole and ended up with me and bike in canal. I hadn’t realised I had done myself any harm, picked up windlass and bike and carried on for a couple of locks. We reached the bottom of Hatton and I was feeling rough so I lay down on the roof of the boat. Wrong! I was unable to get up again for a couple of hours, in which time my beloved had cycled into somewhere, my memory of this is fuzzy, and brought a doctor back. between them they managed to get me into the boat. A prescription for strong painkillers and rest having been dispensed the doc pushed off. I now have the after effects of a crushed coccyx to remember Hatton by. n.b. Obviously this was some years ago, no way you would get a doctor out to you now.

I picked up about Standedge (and Harecastle) and have booked passage but not HNL 1E, I will get on with that, thanks. My prep atm is going through the proposed route on the lockmaster maps, estimating timings, and then going through the stoppages in CRT. I am writing it all in a small journal and hoping to get it typed before we go. I am currently trying to find where I put my shocking pink lock gloves, I am sure I wouldn’t have thrown them.

Thanks robtheplod, I fully intend to

I am soon going for a trip on a hire boat which will be the first trip for a good number of years. I am of pensionable age (☺️) but still active. I have various crew volunteers over the time I am on the boat and I am hoping to cruise the Huddersfield and Leeds and Liverpool. Has anyone got any advice for someone who is going for a jolly many years after leaving life on the canals?

We were on the Thames waiting for a place in the lock and I threw the rope to my hubby. He missed it and I couldn’t bring it in fast enough, now how the boat was in gear I can’t explain. Anyway we worked on a ‘them that get it round the prop, sorts it out’ I remember it was a warm day then as well, with a show for the gongoozlers.

I am experienced and have the time as I am retired, would love to move it for you. I also have a friend to help.

Not sure how old the kids are but tell them to avoid placing the windlass down the back of their jeans. It can cause nasty things to happen to your coccyx when you fall off.

Thanks @Alan de Enfield Re diesel prices. Wow they have shot up, oh well, hasn’t everything ? It sounds a bit tricky, I am rubbish at paperwork. Presumably not absolute accuracy is required, just a guesstimate?

Thanks @Jen-in-Wellies that just about fills in the gaps, obviously as a first pass before I get into complications. I am currently in Bradford, West Yorkshire, but I intend to do a lot of cruising. As my friends who are offering me a room when I need it are up here then I am going to try and get a firm mooring as near as I can.

Cheers peeps, yes v exciting, I am so looking forward to the challenge but not the clearing the house bit so much, ?