Mondays are becoming the new Sundays for publishing the Blog !
Monday, we had a friend on board, so cruised from Kidderminster to Wolverley for lunch at the Lock pub, and then back to Kidderminster.
On Tuesday, we needed to turn around, so did 2 locks (twice) and 2 mile to get back to Kidderminster facing the “right” way. Just below one of the locks there was a loud bang as something hit the propeller, bending one of the fins. So we now have a little vibration on the tiller, but more vibration of the boat whilst in reverse gear. We reported this to the company, who were deciding whether to send the engineer out to see us.
Wednesday was a short motoring day, the weather turned to heavy/thundery showers so we moored up below Whittington Lock at lunch time and watched the rain for the rest of the day. Whittington as in Dick’s Grandfather reportedly lived there!
Thursday, we cruised to our weekend moorings in Stourbridge Basin, via the 4 Stourton Locks, the pounds (the bit between two locks) had really low water levels. We were following, and helping out, a guy working his boat and locks alone, in the last pound he grounded his boat, and we needed to release more water from above the lock to re-float the boat. Once in Stourbridge basin, we had to reverse park our 57ft Boat in a 58ft space! (“Thanks Rog” – Nic!). On an evening stroll round Stourbridge we found a Laundry to drop off a bag of bedding and towels to be done over the weekend, a blessing not be spending 3 hours in the Laundry watching the machines spin.
On Friday, Rog finally managed to speak to the Chief Engineer of the Company (and send him a better photo of the propeller damage, as the water is clearer in the basin – See Below), we have agreed that the propeller needs fixing at his boat yard, on Monday 9 August – So 55 miles and 90 locks to do next week! Then Roger caught the train back to Birmingham International airport to collect another hire car, so we could drive down to Lyme Regis for a family “do” at the weekend.
| This Week | Total | |
| Locks | 19 | 322 |
| Miles Cruised (approx.) | 20 | 521 |
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