On Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:00 PM [GMT+1=CET], rigdent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We spend quite a bit of last week trundling about on the southern bit > of the Staffs and Worcs canal = all very nice and secin and very quiet > we passed a couple of boats a day at most. > > THEN we headed north and a soon as we passed Autherly things got > busier and busier until we got on the T&M and traffic reached > saturation point at times. We passed a flotilla of 8 boat nose to > tail at the rugeley aqueduct and no they weren't a boat club outing. > > Were we unlucky or does it often get like that nowdays ? Seems like > half the traffic is either Canal time or Shakespeare boats We've been moored for a few days at Red Bull, a bit further north on the T&M (mainly because we're both under the weather at the moment). There's quite a bit of traffic about. The largest number is of Black Prince boats from Stoke-on-Trent. There are smaller numbers from other hire fleets (from Stone & Middlewich among others), and quite a few private boats. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk No man is an island. So is Man.
