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10th May To Liverpool, Day 1 The first day of our trip into Liverpool. Burscough to Haskayne 7 Miles 2 swing bridges The Liverpool link that connects the end of the Leeds and Liverpool canal to the Albert and Salthouse docks opened in 2009. When it first opened it was only open in summer, and up to now we have always been away from the area in the summers. So this year we decided to do what is on our door step. We had to book our passage down through the Stanley dock and in to Salthouse dock with the Canal and River trust, as their lads help us in and out. So we are booked to go in on Wednesday 15th and out again on Monday 20th. Everyone who we have talked to who has been in to the city already has said it is great. But we still have to be doing some trading, so we are stopping in Maghull this weekend, and will be open Sat and Sunday, as we will be in Liverpool next weekend. But for today we left the continuous moorers in Burscough around 10.00 in the wind and the rain. At least the wind was more head on to us than across us for most of the trip this morning. Carole operated both the Crabtree and New Lane bridges which amazingly both worked ok, the only problem being pushing Emma Maye off the bridge landing at New Lane after we had passed through it. All went well, me even starting to dry out in the wind until just before the Saracens Head pub at Halsall when we caught up with “The Pride of Sefton 2” It’s a local community boat that is a wide beam, so they where not effected by the wind as much, so where going slower than us. We stopped in the bridge hole for 10 minutes at The Saracens head to let them “get ahead” and then followed them through the cutting where they started digging the Leeds and Liverpool canal over 200 years ago. They had moored outside the Ship Inn at Haskayne, and the two fella’s on board helped to moor us up. Dinner was a light bite in the pub with a nice pint of stout in the pub before doing a bit of computing this afternoon. The wind has continued to blow all day, so we have stayed moored here until tomorrow morning when we’ll travel the next 3 and ½ miles to Maghull. Capt Col, outside The Ship at Haskayne.