Adlington to Johnson Hill top lock.
Up on time, breakfast then a wait while the boat
yard deal with people coming for there day-boats. When the last boat
has left, we push our boat across the canal.
I have a chat with the engineer and then both me
and Sue go for a last walk round Adlington.
On getting back from the walk, we have a cuppa
and a chat with the engineer. Pay up and then ring Josh to organise
meeting up again. We agree to meet him at the bottom of Johnson Hill
locks. We cast of and find the engine dose sound much better, and
far less smoke.
We cruise along to the ice-creame parlour, a
very short walk from the canal, and stroll up to it, and enjoy an
ice cream, while we marvelled at the size of the ice ceames some
people were having.
We then went back to the boat and slowley made
our way to where we had agreed to meet Josh.
Johnson Hill bottom lock in about 1972.
There were several boats moored up, but non of
them seemed to be going any where. Josh soon turned up, pleased with
him self, as he had only guessed when to turn on to the canal, and
he had got it right.
We had a quick lunch and then tackled the locks.
In the second pound going up I managed to get the boat stuck on a
ledge where the over flow from the pound above flowed in.
There was a lot of water coming down the flight, there was water
coming from the lock, with Josh and Sue emptying it, as well as the
over flow channel carrying a lot of water. This was causing a lot of
water to run out of the pound down the overflow, sucking the back of
the boat with it.
We tried to reverse of the ledge, using the
engine, we also tried pushing from the bank etc, to no avail, a kind
passer by offered to help, by letting down some water from the
pound above. This worked a treat, and we soon had the boat in the
next lock.
We arrived at the top lock, where there is a
water point, showers and visitor moorings. So we decided to stop for
the night.