Curdworth closed

[mattuk1980]

26 minutes ago, gatekrash said:

Yep. The CRT emergency guys helping at farmers said they were sorted

Excellent,  thank you.  I needed the reassurance!  We are now half way down Atherstone. 

 

Good luck with farmers bridge...

[Stroudwater1]

1 hour ago, gatekrash said:

Yep. The CRT emergency guys helping at farmers said they were sorted. 

 

However we are now stuck at the next to bottom of farmers bridge. We've been running water down for 4 hours so far and I reckon we're still about a foot off being able to risk it. Level is increasing at about 1-2 inches an hour based on the photos I've taken of the brickwork so we won't move until 9. I'm not spending the night here as it's definitely NOT somewhere to stop, so we are about to go backwards all the way up the flight.

 

Guy in front of us tried getting out of lock 13 and got stuck on the bottom cill. We've flushed him out, but he can't now shut the bottom gate again as the level is too low and the gate is jamming. 

 

Oh well, these things are sent to try us 😂

That’s a pain. I think I may be tempted to moor up in  a pound on the non towpath side somewhere? It’s not too bad on Farmers Bridge these days. Appreciate it’s not the nicest and many others wouldn’t. 

[gatekrash]

1 hour ago, Stroudwater1 said:

That’s a pain. I think I may be tempted to moor up in  a pound on the non towpath side somewhere? It’s not too bad on Farmers Bridge these days. Appreciate it’s not the nicest and many others wouldn’t. 

We thought about it, but to be honest we were almost as fast up backwards as when we went down forwards.

 

Now back in Brum, we'll try the Stratford tomorrow, stop at the Blue Bell and go down Lapworth Tuesday, there's a Mikron theatre show at the top lock on Tuesday evening so will probably walk back up there and then head off Hatton way Wednesday.

 

He's still here...

 

 

 

[cuthound]

20 hours ago, gatekrash said:

He's still here...

 

 

 

 

 

He is probably still trying to wash the taste of Carling out of his mouth with some decent beer!   

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

1 hour ago, cuthound said:

 

 

He is probably still trying to wash the taste of Carling out of his mouth with some decent beer!   

 

Carling’s never been the same since they changed the recipe and messed with the water 😃

 

something a bit different this afternoon but it weren’t no Holden’s in that Holden’s glass 👍
 

 

although Holden’s do do a nice pint. 

[gatekrash]

18 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

Carling’s never been the same since they changed the recipe and messed with the water 😃

 

something a bit different this afternoon but it weren’t no Holden’s in that Holden’s glass 👍
 

 

although Holden’s do do a nice pint. 

Did you end up at Tipton or push on to Wolverhampton then ?

 

We were expecting there to be lots of moored boats at Curdworth waiting but three on the cuttle bridge, none above the tunnel where we've stopped, and only 1 above the top lock. Just checking water levels now.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

7 minutes ago, gatekrash said:

Did you end up at Tipton or push on to Wolverhampton then ?

 

We were expecting there to be lots of moored boats at Curdworth waiting but three on the cuttle bridge, none above the tunnel where we've stopped, and only 1 above the top lock. Just checking water levels now.

You made good time, glad you made it through, and fortunately you are the right side of that bridge that’s bust! wow that’d have been so unlucky. 

Went on to Wolverhampton. Went new line. Lots of wooly weed, slow going. Just one visit down hatch. 

Edited August 19 by beerbeerbeerbeerbeer
Bust not busy

[Victor Vectis]

50 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

Carling’s never been the same since they changed the recipe and messed with the water 😃

 

something a bit different this afternoon but it weren’t no Holden’s in that Holden’s glass 👍
 

 

although Holden’s do do a nice pint. 

Great Western and Bathams?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

2 minutes ago, Victor Vectis said:

Great Western and Bathams?

Of course 👍

 

very busy in here for a Monday afternoon 

 

[gatekrash]

@mattuk1980 not sure where you are in relation to Curdworth yet, but current situation to help you out is...

 

Top lock is just on weir now, and the minworth locks are all running through the bywashes so water is coming down.

 

Between lock 1 and 2 is about a foot down. It's a long pound so will take a while to come up. Probably overnight.

 

Between lock 5 and 6 was dry but that was because a boat was coming up and they had emptied the pound to fill the one below 6. They said everything below was fine.

 

I reckon as long as they've really sorted the leak then you'll pass us on the way through, there's nobody from CRT doing anything actively with the flight anyway so I think it's another case of sort it ourselves.

[mattuk1980]

24 minutes ago, gatekrash said:

not sure where you are in relation to Curdworth yet, but current situation to help you out is...

Thank you for the update.  We are at Drayton Manor moorings for tonight, moving towards Curdworth tomorrow after a day on dry land on the roller coasters, etc, which was our plan.

[ditchcrawler]

2 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

You made good time, glad you made it through, and fortunately you are the right side of that bridge that’s bust! wow that’d have been so unlucky.