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| A tranquil morning on the canal |
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| Passing Aston Marina |
We are on the move today and as it is a popular place to
stop, we left around 9am. We chugged off
along the canal to Aston Lock. A boat
had not long come down so the lock was set for us and soon we were going up the
lock. There was nothing coming the other
way so I closed the gate and got on the boat and as I did a boat came around
the corner, that always seems to happen. By Aston lock there is a very tiny house, we wondered who lives in a house like this!
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| Coming into Aston Lock |
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| Who lives in a house like this!! |
We chugged on for about a mile or so and then we were
approaching Stone and the moorings so we pulled in and I got off and walked
down to see if there were any spaces in the moorings further down. There were so I signaled to Kev to come down
and I saw the boat come out into the middle of the canal but he didn’t seem to
come. So I waited a bit then walked back
down and Kev was down the weed hatch and the boat was across the canal.
Apparently as Kev tried to get off the bank something kept
us in there and Kev couldn’t push the
boat off we were somehow trapped to the bank.
He tried twice but the engine just cut out.
Kev had a feel around and felt something around the
propeller but couldn’t work out what it was.
He then had a look on the bank as we seemed to be fixed to it and then
he found out what it was. When they
repair the sides of the bank they use a black heavy duty plastic matted
material and this what was around our prop and it was still joined to the bank
so Kev had to saw it away and eventually we were free from the bank and we
could tie up properly. Luckily in this
time only a couple of boats came past and I managed to pull the front of the boat in to let
them through.
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| Stone |
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| Old Bridge over River Trent |
Kev then had to go back down the weed hatch and pull the
rest of it off the prop, he got it all and then we were able to move to the
moorings a bit further down. We have had
things around the prop in the past but this is the first time we have been tied
to the bank!
Bill, Al and Ziggy were here also so we said hi to them and
then went for a walk up into the town.
We went for a walk along the towpath to the Chandlery and then stopped
off in the Café narrowboat for a coffee and a toastie.
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| Welcome to Stone |
We walked back to the boat and chilled out for a bit then
walked down to the Star pub by the lock and had a drink with Ziggy, Bill and
Tony. Bill told us about a butchers down
the main road so we had a walk down there and found it, it looked really good
so we bought a few things then back to the boat. There is an old bridge by the main road so we
had a walk down by it, it goes over the River Trent.
We are staying here tonight and also tomorrow then chugging
off on Monday.
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| Moored at Stone |
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