From tpav@globalnet.co.uk Sun Apr 18 19:25:08 1999
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:48:08 -0000
From: Trevor Pavitt <tpav@globalnet.co.uk>
Reply-To: canals@blacksheep.org
To: canals@blacksheep.org
Subject: Lady Elgar goes North - 1

As we are just about to set out on our first cruise of 1999 I thought some
of you on the ng might be interested in following our progress, if you are
not, just filter out my reports please.
We plan to leave our mooring at Iver (GU ^Ö Slough Arm) on Monday 15th March
and take ^ÓLady Elgar^Ô back to her birthplace (Dave Elwell^Òs yard below
Compton Lock on the Staffs & Worcs). From there we intend to motor up the
Shroppie and the Llangollen to Pontcysyllte. We have done all this in
previous years but, after our return to Hurleston Junction we shall be in
new waters.
Our route will, hopefully, take us via the Bridgwater to the Leeds and
Liverpool; we hope to reach Keadby and then return home via the Trent, Soar,
GU Leicester Arm and main line. We expect to be back at base some time in
July. The whole trip is about 750 miles with 450 locks.
Just for the record, Lady Elgar is a 60ft, trad-style, steel narrowboat
(built to our spec in 1993) with Perkins 3HD46 (9152 to the cognoscenti). My
wife, Mary, and I are both retired and have lived permanently on the boat
for several years now. Last year we did the full length of the Thames from
Limehouse to Lechlade, the K&A to Bristol and back, the South Oxford and as
far north as Snarestone on the Ashby canal ( 602 miles and 442 locks in
all).

Cheers,

Trevor - nb "Lady Elgar" - Grand Union Canal