we start our cruise on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at 9 p.m.
very excited on a new canal but were equally exhausted after a long day of
cruising it was our intention to moor on the Trent and Mersey canal and tackle
the start of the Staffordshire in Worcestershire canal in the morning but
they're simply just weren't any mooring spots for us so we pressed on on the
bright side we did have the junction all to ourselves
and we could do as many 360s as we wanted
we have turned unto the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal it is one of the first
canals we're doing from beginning to end not counting the Ashby because we have to
do a u-turn and it is quarter past 9:00 at night we cannot find a mooring so
we're literally just coming up a little bit further trying to find somewhere
safe to moor and just probably going to bed
now this looks promising
Welcome to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal.
again another early morning for us we've just left the mooring spot that
was the first mooring spot that we came to
after great Hayward Junction it's probably about five minutes away from the junction.
we haven't had very much sleep because we had a tiny bit of Armco last night
when we moored up we didn't pin in because we thought we'll get up really early and just move the boat
unfortunately what's happened is somebody else got up at 5 a.m. and five
unchained. The armco wasn't great so the chains came off.
people decided to move at those times and ripped us around.
Because we were moored badly.
yeah it's completely our fault we were moored badly.
Is that Narrowboat girl?
Other boat tubers are still asleep
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we had a lovely cup of tea with her and her mum narrowboat mum.
interestingly we came for a walk down here the other day in this part the
Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal now is a little bit wider and we were like oh it
looks a wide yeah I guess it does look a little bit like a lake and there's a
house on the hill and yeah I guess so I can I can see that the guidebook
describes it as a really wide area that your boat would
be so happy it will do kind of boat cartwheel spin
'Wheelies' And I thought how you get a spin in that area I guess we're right happy I'll show you
when we get to the real Tixall wide. The clue you're approaching Tixall wide is- see if
you can spot the clue
Four dogs.
Love your cats, we have 12.
On a farm- oh not on the boat.
that boat is actually so happy it's doing a 360.
Do you reckon people use this as a
winding circle then? I think possibly they do and also it's
also some people only have side hatches on one side of their boat and they'd
like it to be on the view side so would turn their boats around also what Fran
Rich did.
we have side hatches on both sides so it doesn't matter
minimalist
Tixall wide is a lovely spot to moor if you've just joined the canal at Great
Hayward Junction the wideness of the canal is either because there was a
natural water they're already natural area of water
and they just put the canal through it or because they were trying to placate
the owners of Tixall house and giving them a nice lakeside view from their
property
I prefer the second one placating the rich
really why this canal so I think it does get a lot more narrow
though yeah even not on the way the homebrew boat said this is one of
their favorite canals were Barry said and it gets narrow
we just went through the first of 43 locks that we'll be doing
and what's the share canal it was tips along
we love tunnels and we have a beat through one of this broken
thanks for joining us on the Staffordshire Worcestershire Canal today
we were aiming to get a little further along but the rain stopped us in our
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