Day 4 – Tuesday 3 July 2007 14:00 - 17:25 7.71 Miles 3.5 Hours (ave 2.21 mph) 2 Locks
A noisy night spent at Nottingham thanks to the ducks nibbling at the boat sides – there is no weed, they just want someone to come out with bread. We went shopping, both for food, and a chip fryer at Curries. It was after lunch we left, with a heavy sky above. It mostly rained all the way up, at times very heavily. It was nice being able to do 4mph without running the engine flatout, but soon we were at the flood lock, and after a bit of thought we decided to continue up to Cranfleet. It was a long hard slog through the flooded Trent, and just before the lock we slowed to just under 2mph, making the flow of water about 4.3 mph. When we arrived at the lock, the local BW man came down to meet us. We talked about the levels, and he said earlier in the week the water was backing into the cut – Nicholson's shows the rise of the lock 7ft 9in normally. He was hoping to open the gates today, but after leaving the cut to fill overnight from the leaks in the flood gates, he found that the level had increased again, and was now too high. We went to have a look at the height, it was about 2 feet difference, the canal could maybe just take the extra water and I bet during commercial days they wouldn't close the gates until they really needed to. As Dad had to go back to Hull to sort out his car which was at the garage, Mum had come down to pick him up. On our walk to Trent Lock we looked again at the gates, and found it had risen another half inch. Looks like we are going to stuck for awhile longer. Day 5 – Wednesday 4 July 2007 Cranfleet The river was up another inch this morning, lets hope it starts dropping soon. -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
