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There was no blog yesterday as there was no mobile signal worth having – so a double issue today. Susan joined us at Fazeley Junction where we filled up with water, or at least we put a little into the tank as is was a slow tap with not much flow and we gave up waiting. We had two attempts to head under the bridge onto the Coventry Canal as a boat appeared the first time we tried. 
The first two locks on the Coventry Canal were at Glascote and, like all those on the Coventry, they are quick enough to empty but take ages to fill. Then on to the 11 locks at Atherstone and it felt like we were waiting all day for them to fill. A brief pause in one of the longer pounds gave us time for shopping and filming in the town. We eventually stopped a little south of Atherstone for a quiet night, then headed on, passing Hartshill first thing this morning. 
With no locks this morning it was comparatively lazy. We just followed the twists and turns of the canal to Hawkesbury Junction, then continued straight on to reach Coventry Basin. We like to make sure that our DVDs cover the branches so we needed to cruise to Coventry Basin. With the Bowcam DVDs we can’t just cheat and visit Coventry later by car to film the basin separately, but we need to cruise there ourselves. 
Then a quick cruise back to Hawkesbury Junction to move onto the Oxford Canal. There’s a stop lock there, where the canals are just a few inches different in levels. Some say this was to stop the later canal stealing water from the earlier one, while others say it was simply a miscalculation and the canals were intended to be at the same level. We’re moored at Ansty, hoping to pass Braunston tomorrow and be well north on the Grand Union towards Birmingham on Friday. Posted on Wednesday, 3 June 2009 at 21:28 Comments (0) |
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