Today we moved Jannock down through the three locks and swing bridge to the winding point, turned and retraced our route back to the mooring. We performed exactly the same manoeuvre during the first weekend in February last year. The weather was glorious with not a lot of cloud in evidence and the only thing to report is the towpath side lower gate on lock 60. This is the one that has a temporary heel post fitted after the original failed last autumn - it is a right bu$$er to move so if anyone is passing through solo, use the offside lower gate and save the hernia for later. Thanks to the Parglena crew for lock wheeling and making the trip much quicker, allowing me to carry out a couple of maintenance tasks before lunchtime.
Incidentally, I've just totted up that Jannock travelled 545 miles through 708 locks in 344 hours during 2007. That's an average of 3.6 lm/h. Must update canal planner. Graham www.jannock.org.uk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
