--- In [email protected], "rigdent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Steve Wood <steve@> wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a safe mooring for a couple of days as close to Runcorn > > as possible, approaching up the T&M. The boat will be unattended for > > part of the time and it also needs to be somewhere that I can leave a > > car as I move to/from it. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > Steve > > NB Bream > > > There isnt any safe mooring round there- when we went through we were > under attack every day and night from the moment we passed Preston > Brook till we got up the end of the Rufford branch. We weren't spared > when we went into a marina for the night. The place is a no go area > > Regards > > Terry > I'm sorry, but I have to disagree about the Bridgwater being a no go area.
I appreciate that the poster must have had some really bad luck, but I've cruised this strech many times and although Patricroft and North of Worseley can be rough, the majority f The Bridgewater is fine. The area around Lymm is particularly good for what you want, there are good motorway links for your transport requirements and to be extra safe there are a number of boatyards North of Lymm (or is it more East) where you could negotiate a short term mooring, but your BW licence will only cover you for seven days continuous so you may need to buy a short term Bridgewater licence, but The Bridgewater is prety cheap licence wise anyway. The Old No 3 is a good mooring but is policed for overstaying recently, but I've seen boats left there for months in the past so it is pretty justified. I've past through Sale and Altringham in the mid-evening without any trouble but in the past it had a bad reputation but the area has much tidied in recent years and now is full of Audi TTs and other wealthy type cars. Broken Cross Boat Club may be able to offer moorings, you'd have to call them. Further South, the Northern Trent and Mersey is absulutely beautiful in the most and well worth a visit, and is pretty safe most of it's length, and has a few marinas dotted up an down (check Nicholsons) and would be OK licence wise as it's BW. Just South of Preston Brook tunnel may be a good spot for overnighting or even more extended atays up to 14 days of course. There is a boatyard immediately North of Worseley who offered short term mooring over a few weeks for some friends of mine once, but I can't remember their name, and it was behind a locked gate etc etc. Moving further on, Dover Lock is the perfect overnight spot before Wigan; close enough to be up there for an early start up the flight, but suberbian enough not to attract trouble. I've stayed there many times. You can then easily make Appley Bridge going West from Wigan and Parpold and Burscough are then pleasent stops, or anywhere on that stretch as it's particularly beautiful once you get to Crooke, or going up Wigan Flight, Red Rock has towapath permenant moorings on the end of which you can tag for overnight after doing the Wigan flight and is very safe. It's a trip of contrasts is The Bridgewater, and can be foreboding in places, but is also very beautiful here and there and well worth a visit.
