Date - 04 /09/08 Day - Thursday Start - 0930 End - 2000 Harnser's present position http://tinyurl.com/Harnser-s-route
As we set off it started to rain, and it got harder and harder until lunch time when it changed to sunny showers, but the showers weren't very sunny. We must have passed the longest run of linear moorings I have ever seen, I would estimate them to be 1.5 miles long, If the weather forecast is wrong tomorrow we will try and count them all. Most of the locks, all of which are wide were with us but we worked them all alone until the Chester staircase where we shared with another CIBC member. The moorings by the dry dock were all occupied, well the boats were so well spaced no one else could get in, so we moored on the off side for a cup of tea. Then an Ownerships boat moved and went to fill with water so we started the engine and started to move over to the 100 feet he had vacated, as we did so a second boat moved off freeing up another big chunk of bank. We moored tight behind the remaining boat leaving 120 feet of free mooring behind us. Diana spotted a rope laying in the grass and asked the Ownerships boat if they had left it. They had, complete with mooring pins (there ate rings) as they were coming back after taking water, however the pins had gone and the consciences was that the boat that had left after them had taken them. I pointed out that there were rings and he didn't need pins but he told me none of the rings lined up with the centre rope. Anyway after taking his water he came back and sat right in the middle of the 120 feet and put a pin in for the centre rope. In view of the weather forecast for tomorrow, 50mm rain in 12 hours starting at 5 am we decided to leave and head back up the canal as fare as the Cheshire Cat at Christleton as this is the beginning of a long pound, so if the weather is bad we can do a few hours with no locks. We tied up at 2000hs and went to eat wondering if they were still doing food, but they serve until 10 pm. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Join SOW and help save our waterways http://www.saveourwaterways.org
