Still Stuck In Stone

Well we are still stuck in Stone, we know there are worse places to be stuck but after 6 days we really do want to get moving.

Last Tuesday we moved up one lock to be closer to the town. We had only just moored when we were greeted by John & Nev who have a lovely new Braidbar Boat called Destiny. We know them both from when we were moored at Kingfisher Marina in Yardley Gobion.

We have spent some time with John and Nev catching up on things visited the pub once or three times.

Really Lovely Boat

John & Nev

 A holiday boat was stuck with us in the pound and wanted to turn round but it was just to long to turn in the pound 40ft across, however its not easy to reverse a narrowboat so John took the tiller and I used the boat pole to adjust the bow of the boat when we were reversing, we done a great job and the holiday maker was very happy that we had helped him out.

I took a walk up to the lock that is closed you can see a rather large hole in the base of the lock which has to be repaired. Specialist engineers were called in and they have injected an epoxy resin in to the void and this needs to set and then the bricks will be replaced repointed and the lock refilled and with a bit of luck we will be moving on tomorrow.

Hole in Base of lock

Manhole Cover in Base

Tacet was serviced by Stone Boat Builders and I have been touching up some paint work whilst Sharon has done some lovely silk paintings.

So to sum up its been a very quiet week at Stone. We are still making our way to Middleport pottery to do the tour and have an afternoon tea which we are looking forward to very much. So mine and Eddys apologies for not doing a blog recently but there has not been much to write about.  

Time Travelled Thursday 4.5 Hrs  Distance Travelled  9.5 Miles. 4 Lock

Time Travelled Friday 9 Hrs Distance Travelled 10.5 miles 5 Locks.

Time Travelled Sunday 3 Hrs Distance 5 Miles 5 locks

Time Travelled Monday 6 Hrs Distance 10.5 Miles 4 Locks

Total Distance Travelled 788.5 Miles 

207 Locks (Broad ) 273 single locks and 18 tunnel's, 10 Massive Lock

Total Tunnel length 10707 yards   
Total Time 403.5 hours  

We Are Loving It so Much