The best laid plans need to be variable. We are going back to Birminham to join the Jume Birmongham Canal Navigations Society Explorer Cruise. We have planned out getting to Wolverhampton in small bites. The first was to start at 0930 to take the boat to Royal Leamington Spa where we can catch a train home so that we can do a days duty on the Waterways Chaplaincy/Boaters' Christian Fellowship stand at Crick on Saturday.
But it rained. Not just gentle raib that you can cruise through but eye blinding stair rods coat drenching rain. It eased off at 3.00pm and we cruised in the sunny bits and light showers to Cropredy where we moored above the lock at 6.15pm.
Apart from the rain this short routine trip was not withour difficulty. The bywash culvert at Hardwick lock was totally clogged with cut vegetation. This increased the level in the pound and the bottom gates were overflowing making gwtting the top one difficult to open.
The bywash was blocked at Slat Mill lock too. Here the level in the pound was artuficially high to the extent that the towing pzth was flooded. This made retying nb Humble Bumble, which had come adrift acriss the cut, difficult as the piling rail could not be reached.
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