Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:20:32 +0000 From: Tony Mealing Reply-To: Canals To: Canals Cc: canals@ukwaterways.net Bcc: nonet@yahoogroups.com Subject: Two weeks of Leisure (XP) [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Our final full days cruising started off with me getting up at 6:15 and pulling the mooring pins at 08:00. Timed to perfection as two other boats left the moorings at exactly the same time, putting me ahead of them. Which made no difference at all as all locks we encountered were set against us.We seemed to have worked more locks today then we actually passed through as we were also setting the other of the paired locks for the boat following us. At one point we caught up with an Anglo Welsh boat who started doing the same for us, making the last ten or so locks on the T & M quite an easy feat. Lunch today was taken just above Br 94 on the Macc where we stopped for over an hour and enjoyed the sun before pushing on. Rather than dining out tonight we decided on Fish and Chips which were duly purchased from said establishment near Br 75. This also involved a two and three quarter hour stopover. This email is being written while underway, and we are currently going under Br 58. There are no firm plans as to where we will stop tonight other than the one decision Helen has made during the shot time she's been awake today, 'Bosley Locks will be attacked tomorrow'. Thats it for today, Happy cruising if that's what you're doing, if your not then may be you should be. As You Do Tony M ---