I came a little bit late to the duck loving party and I've just recently
fallen in love with ducks so I'll put a little clip here of a painting that I've
done recently of a duck. I'm just on the hunt for like really
cute ducks that are doing really cute things. Good morning. Good morning.
Dragged out of bed this morning I was to get moving so that we can get to
Nantwich today. Yes.
Four locks it Hurleston. If we were going to walk
we could probably do it in an hour and a half because we've got to go through four
locks it will probably takes us three hours.
DO you think so?
Set my timer.
Comment below if you think it's gonna take us more or less than three hours.
I actually think it's gonna take an hour but if you said to get to Nantwich or
to get through the locks?
To get to Nantwich. It'll be an hour and a half maybe.
I'm gonna say
two hours.
You think we can do four locks
in 30 minutes?
Yeah.
I can see locks by myself now!
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So I have convinced Kath on the last day to tell you why we're getting to
Nantwich at breakneck speed. So I'll start.
Anybody that's ever met us or spoken to us about boats well know that we often
say you only ever buy your first boat once. That's a big clue you going in with
that? And as you know this is our first boat!
And we love her, we love her, we do, we really love he,r we love her new colors,
we love the lay out, we love her namelessness (the fact that we've taken
the name off),
we love the stern, we love we just like it.
But as we've also spoken about with you guys Annamarie has her art business.
We both have her art business. And Kath has a lot of... it's not just me...
anyway so to say the thing and then we can say why... okay go sorry.
So we're running for business from the boat. I have hobbies too.
And we could get rid of a little bit of stuff
but not enough stuff.
So we've been looking since probably the middle of last year
for a different boat that possibly has a little bit more room.
So we're really lucky with our 52 foot we've got a
we've got everything we've got the lounge the dinette
bedroom the bathroom they are all separate rooms and you don't
even get that all the time 57 or 60-foot boat.
But we've managed to find a
57 foot boat with two bedrooms a bathroom, a lounge room and a dinette.
I think that should be perfect for us.
So the reason that we're going to Nantwich is because we need to hire a car
and between Ellesmere and Nantwich is kind of a higher company deadzone.
So we're hiring a car and we're driving off to go and attend the
a part of the survey tomorrow- of the 'new for us'
boat number #2. Ewart #2. Is obviously what we're gonna call her. It's not catching on.
We are obviously really nervous about changing boats because
it's better the devil you know. And we know this one. Yeah.
Inside and out. We also said that we would always keep her for a few
years and we would try to make specific improvements and not make her worse.
Which I think we've done.
We've been able to spend a lot of time on Ewart and we
continually cruise now for a year on her and we know how we live. We know what we need to store,
we know what we use, we know we can't get rid of much more stuff and
I think it's the closest that we would get to
our ideal with out having our own boat built. Yes.
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We're on to the second lock. I'm doing that fun thing where I go to the next
lock and set it and then go back to the other one it's been quite good because
the waters all on our side so the beginning of the day it's quite nice
actually.
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Thanks.
sorry
me
Bye Llangollen.
Bridge 97 Shropshire union canal, wide and spacious with only a cill
to upset you. Oh that big wide cill. I know.
And we still don't have tractor tyres. Tractor tyres are this big.
Little tractor tyres. We're not 100% sure what was
going on at the bottom lock but there was two volunteers down there, and
you had to stay very close to the cill and
go very slowly so good thing we didn't do it yesterday
by ourselves. Also because that would have broken the rules.
We're such rule-followers.
So we're now in the last stretch of the journey to Nantwich. There are several spots of visitor moorings so I'm
hoping to be able to get into the first ones that we come to.
We want to get some water if we can find some. We don't 'need'.
So all the moorings now I think are 48hours.
It's not winter anymore.
So how long did you say to get through the locks, or did you say to get to Nantwich?
I said 3 hours to Nantwich. Oh ok. What are we on now?
One hour!
No way! Yeah we're in an hour I set the timer. Did you pause the timer? No I was going to pause the
timer when we were gonna get water.
Let me see. Oh one hour. Fair enough.
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I love getting back onto different canals and new canals but we were remember
this canal and it's just so wide. It's crazy. I know it doesn't stay that wide
the whole time. No it doesn't. But this bit in particular is really it's
really interesting.
We've really enjoyed taking you up and down the Llangollen- in
what started out as a red boat but ended as a blue boat. We're really excited
to share the next chapter of the narrow boat experience with you no matter what
boat we end up in. Oh no boats moored on both sides how will I get through?
How will you manage with this bridge? I don't know.
How long before this joke gets old? About now.
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